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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.222
আর যত গ্রন্থ কৈলা, তাহা কে করে গণন ।
‘মদনগোপাল-গোবিন্দের সেবা’-প্রকাশন ॥ ২২২ ॥
āra yata grantha kailā, tāhā ke kare gaṇana
‘madana-gopāla-govindera sevā’-prakāśana
Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī also compiled many other books. Who can enumerate them? The basic principle of all these books is to show us how to love Madana-mohana and Govindajī.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī compiled many books. Their basic principle is to show us how to love Madana-mohana and Govindajī.
The Bhakti-ratnākara lists Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta, Hari-bhakti-vilāsa with Dig-darśinī, Līlā-stava, and Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī among his works.
All his books aim to describe how to serve the principal Deities of Vṛndāvana, Govinda and Madana-gopāla. As other Deities were gradually established, Vṛndāvana’s importance increased.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
In this way he completely retired and returned to Vṛndāvana to meet Sanātana Gosvāmī. After narrating these incidents, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has given a list of the main books of Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Jīva Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “serve”
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: “hari-bhakti-vilāsa”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I keep loving service, rather than simply collecting information, at the center of my study?
Before studying today, write this intention: “May this study help me learn how to love and serve.”
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