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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya
Antya 5.127Antya 5.129

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 5.128

শুনি’ সভাসদের চিত্তে হৈল চমৎকার ।

‘সত্য কহে গোসাঞি, দুঁহার করিয়াছে তিরস্কার’ ॥ ১২৮ ॥

śuni’ sabhā-sadera citte haila camatkāra

‘satya kahe gosāñi, duṅhāra kariyāche tiraskāra’

Translation

Hearing this explanation, all the members of the assembly were struck with wonder. “Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has spoken the real truth,” they admitted. “The brāhmaṇa from Bengal has committed an offense by wrongly describing Lord Jagannātha and Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.”

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Describe the Lord Truthfully

  1. 1

    The members of the assembly were struck with wonder upon hearing the explanation.

  2. 2

    They acknowledged that Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī had spoken the real truth.

  3. 3

    They recognized that the brāhmaṇa from Bengal had committed an offense by wrongly describing Lord Jagannātha and Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

How it feels

Humility and discernment. The Lord directs a seeker to Rāmānanda and clarifies genuine spiritual qualification.

The mood of Antya 5 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

A brāhmaṇa from Bengal composed a drama about the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and went to Jagannātha Purī to show it to the associates of the Lord. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, heard the drama, he discerned a tinge of Māyāvāda philosophy and pointed it out to the author.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. śuni’hearing
  2. sabhā-saderaof all the members of the assembly
  3. cittein the minds
  4. hailathere was
  5. camatkārawonder
  6. satyathe truth
  7. kahesaid
  8. gosāñiSvarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I willing to correct my descriptions of the Lord when they are shown to be mistaken?

Practice

Review one statement you have written about the Lord and check that it agrees with the supplied text.

Live this todayDescribe the Lord TruthfullyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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