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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 20.111
তার মধ্যে ‘বাঙ্গাল’-কবির নাটক-উপেক্ষণ ।
স্বরূপ-গোসাঞি কৈলা বিগ্রহের মহিমা-স্থাপন ॥ ১১১ ॥
tāra madhye ‘bāṅgāla’-kavira nāṭaka-upekṣaṇa
svarūpa-gosāñi kailā vigrahera mahimā-sthāpana
That chapter also describes how Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī rejected the drama of a poet from Bengal and established the glories of the Deity.
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The fifth chapter also describes a drama by a poet from Bengal.
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī rejected that drama.
He established the glories of the Deity. This summary does not give the details of his rejection.
Unconditional devotion. Eight prayers move from cleansing the heart to love that endures even without reciprocation.
The mood of Antya 20 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed His nights tasting the meaning of the Śikṣāṣṭaka prayers in the company of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya. Sometimes He recited verses from Jayadeva Gosvāmī’s Gīta-govinda, from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, from Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya’s Jagannātha-vallabha-nāṭaka or from Śrī Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura’s Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
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