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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 4.224
‘উজ্জ্বলনীলমণি’-নাম গ্রন্থ কৈল আর ।
রাধাকৃষ্ণ-লীলারস তাহাঁ পাইয়ে পার ॥ ২২৪ ॥
‘ujjvala-nīlamaṇi’-nāma grantha kaila āra
rādhā-kṛṣṇa-līlā-rasa tāhāṅ pāiye pāra
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī also compiled the book named Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi, from which one can understand, to the fullest limits, the loving affairs of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.
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Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī compiled Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi.
Its subject is the loving affairs of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.
The verse presents this book as a source for understanding those loving affairs to the fullest limits.
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
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhā”
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