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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 5.54
শীঘ্র যাহ, যাবৎ তেঁহো আছেন সভাতে ।” এত শুনি’ প্রদ্যুম্ন-মিশ্র চলিলা তুরিতে ॥ ৫৪ ॥
śīghra yāha, yāvat teṅho āchena sabhāte”
eta śuni’ pradyumna-miśra calilā turite
“Go hastily, while he is in the assembly room.” Hearing this, Pradyumna Miśra immediately departed.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu tells Pradyumna Miśra to go hastily.
Rāmānanda Rāya is in the assembly room, so this is the time to approach him.
On hearing the instruction, Pradyumna Miśra immediately departs.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya was training the deva-dāsī dancing girls in the temple, and when Pradyumna Miśra heard about this, he returned to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The Lord, however, elaborately described the character of Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 5
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When an opportunity to hear about Kṛṣṇa arises, do I respond or delay?
Begin a short reading about Kṛṣṇa today rather than putting it off.
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