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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.115

কত উপহার আনে, হেন নাহি জানি ।

রাঘবের ঘরে রান্ধে রাধা-ঠাকুরাণী ॥ ১১৫ ॥

kata upahāra āne, hena nāhi jāni

rāghavera ghare rāndhe rādhā-ṭhākurāṇī

Translation

He brought so many presentations that no one could know them perfectly. Indeed, it was a fact that the supreme mother, Rādhārāṇī, personally cooked in the house of Rāghava Paṇḍita.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Rādhārāṇī Personally Cooks

  1. 1

    Rāghava Paṇḍita brought so many food presentations that no one could know them perfectly.

  2. 2

    The verse identifies Rādhārāṇī as the supreme mother.

  3. 3

    It states as a fact that She personally cooked in Rāghava Paṇḍita’s house.

How it feels

Longing fulfilled. Raghunātha’s sustained desire for the Lord culminates in arrival, shelter, and renunciation.

The mood of Antya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī

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

After this incident, Raghunātha dāsa, with the help of his priest, whose name was Yadunandana Ācārya, got out of his house by trickery and thus ran away. Not touching the general path, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī secretly went to Jagannātha Purī.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. kata upahāramany presentations
  2. ānebrings
  3. henasuch
  4. nāhi jāniI cannot understand
  5. rāghavera ghareat the house of Rāghava Paṇḍita
  6. rāndhecooks
  7. rādhā-ṭhākurāṇīthe supreme mother, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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: “cooked”

  • 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: “rādhārāṇī”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does knowing that Rādhārāṇī personally cooked deepen your appreciation of this meal?

Practice

Reread the verse slowly, giving special attention to Rādhārāṇī’s personal service.

Live this todayRādhārāṇī Personally CooksThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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