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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 4.217
দুই ভাই মিলি’ বৃন্দাবনে বাস কৈলা ।
প্রভুর যে আজ্ঞা, দুঁহে সব নির্বাহিলা ॥ ২১৭ ॥
dui bhāi mili’ vṛndāvane vāsa kailā
prabhura ye ājñā, duṅhe saba nirvāhilā
The brothers met at Vṛndāvana, where they stayed to execute the will of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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The brothers met at Vṛndāvana.
They stayed there to execute the will of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Their work there included collecting revealed scriptures, recovering lost pilgrimage sites and establishing temples for Lord Kṛṣṇa’s worship.
Despair met with care. Sanātana’s wish to die is interrupted by the Lord’s protective insistence on his future service.
The mood of Antya 4 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:
After meeting Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī also returned to Bengal, where he remained for one year. Whatever money he owned, he distributed among his relatives, the brāhmaṇas and the temples.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
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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: “vṛndāvana”
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Discuss with a fellow reader one way the brothers’ work expressed their commitment to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s will.
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