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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 5.91
বঙ্গদেশী এক বিপ্র প্রভুর চরিতে ।
নাটক করি’ লঞা আইল প্রভুকে শুনাইতে ॥ ৯১ ॥
baṅga-deśī eka vipra prabhura carite
nāṭaka kari’ lañā āila prabhuke śunāite
A brāhmaṇa from Bengal wrote a drama about the characteristics of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and came with his manuscript to induce the Lord to hear it.
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A brāhmaṇa from Bengal wrote a drama about the characteristics of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
He came with his manuscript, hoping to induce the Lord to hear it.
The verse introduces the writer and his intention. It does not yet tell us how the Lord responded to the drama.
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:
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 5
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