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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.85
সখ্যভাবাক্রান্ত-চিত্ত, গোপ-অবতার ।
স্বরূপ-গোসাঞি-সহ সখ্য-ব্যবহার ॥ ৮৫ ॥
sakhya-bhāvākrānta-citta, gopa-avatāra
svarūpa-gosāñi-saha sakhya-vyavahāra
He was fully absorbed in thoughts of fraternal relationships with God. He was an incarnation of a cowherd boy, and thus his dealings with Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī were very friendly.
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Bhagavān Ācārya was fully absorbed in thoughts of friendship with God.
He was an incarnation of a cowherd boy.
His dealings with Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī were therefore very friendly.
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:
Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary. Later, when Junior Haridāsa, following the order of Bhagavān Ācārya, went to collect alms from Mādhavīdevī, he committed an offense by talking intimately with a woman although he was in the renounced order.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.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “relationships”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “cowherd”
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What does this verse show me about the personal nature of a relationship with God?
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