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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.83
স্বরূপ-গোসাঞি তবে মধুর করিয়া ।
গীতগোবিন্দের পদ গায় প্রভুরে শুনাঞা ॥ ৮৩ ॥
svarūpa-gosāñi tabe madhura kariyā
gīta-govindera pada gāya prabhure śunāñā
Thus for the pleasure of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī began very sweetly singing the following verse from the Gīta-govinda.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī sang for the pleasure of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
He began singing very sweetly in response to the Lord’s request.
The song he chose was a verse from the Gīta-govinda.
Absorbed searching. The Lord lives the gopīs’ search for Kṛṣṇa with ecstatic transformations.
The mood of Antya 15 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited a verse from the Gīta-govinda just suitable to the Lord’s emotions. Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to me about singing for the Lord’s pleasure?
Read or sing the supplied Gīta-govinda verse today with the intention of pleasing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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