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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.92
স্বরূপ গোসাঞিরে আচার্য কহে আর দিনে ।
‘বেদান্ত পড়িয়া গোপাল আইসাছে এখানে ॥ ৯২ ॥
svarūpa gosāñire ācārya kahe āra dine
‘vedānta paḍiyā gopāla āisāche ekhāne
Bhagavān Ācārya said to Svarūpa Dāmodara, “Gopāla, my younger brother, has returned to my home, having concluded his study of Vedānta philosophy.”
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Bhagavān Ācārya spoke to Svarūpa Dāmodara about his younger brother, Gopāla.
He said that Gopāla had concluded his study of Vedānta philosophy.
Gopāla had now returned to Bhagavān Ācārya’s home.
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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In the context of the preceding verses, how do I distinguish completing philosophical studies from developing pure devotion?
Write one sentence recalling why completed studies alone did not bring the Lord happiness in this meeting.
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