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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.31
‘গৌরগোপাল মন্ত্র’ তোমার চারি অক্ষর ।
অবিশ্বাস ছাড়, যেই করিয়াছ অন্তর ।।” ৩১ ॥ ৩১ ॥
‘gaura-gopāla mantra’ tomāra cāri akṣara
aviśvāsa chāḍa, yei kariyācha antara”
“You are chanting the Gaura-gopāla mantra, composed of four syllables. Now please give up the doubts that have resided within you.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Nakula Brahmacārī identified Śivānanda Sena's four-syllable Gaura-gopāla mantra and asked him to give up his doubts.
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explains that worshipers of Śrī Gaurasundara accept gau-ra-aṅ-ga as the Gaura mantra. Pure worshipers of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa accept rā-dhā kṛṣ-ṇa as the Gaura-gopāla mantra.
Vaiṣṇavas consider Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu nondifferent from Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, one who chants “gaurāṅga” and one who chants the names of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are on the same level.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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:
Nevertheless, his brother, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Ācārya, discoursed upon the commentary of impersonalism (Māyāvāda). Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “chants”, “names of”
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhā”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this teaching shape my respect for those who chant “gaurāṅga” or the names of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa?
Spend a quiet minute chanting “gaurāṅga” or the names of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, remembering their nondifference.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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