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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.73
আর দিন কহেন প্রভু, — ‘পড়, পুরীদাস ।’ এই শ্লোক করি’ তেঁহো করিলা প্রকাশ ॥ ৭৩ ॥
āra dina kahena prabhu, — ‘paḍa, purī-dāsa’
ei śloka kari’ teṅho karilā prakāśa
Another day, when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said to the boy, “Recite, My dear Purī dāsa,” the boy composed the following verse and expressed it before everyone.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu affectionately addressed the boy as “My dear Purī dāsa” and asked him to recite.
Purī dāsa responded by composing a verse and expressing it before everyone.
The following verse shows that the boy used this opportunity to glorify Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Sweetness amidst longing. Jagannātha’s prasādam awakens intense awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
The mood of Antya 16 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:
When the Bengali devotees of the Lord returned to Jagannātha Purī, a gentleman named Kālidāsa, who was an uncle of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, went with them to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kālidāsa had tasted the remnants of food of all the Vaiṣṇavas in Bengal, even Jhaḍu Ṭhākura.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you respond to an opportunity to speak about Kṛṣṇa?
Read Purī dāsa’s verse in the next entry aloud today.
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