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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 6.195

প্রভু কহেন, — “তোমার পিতা-জ্যেঠা দুই জনে ।

চক্রবর্তী-সম্বন্ধে হাম ‘আজা’ করি’ মানে ॥ ১৯৫ ॥

prabhu kahena, — “tomāra pitā-jyeṭhā dui jane

cakravartī-sambandhe hāma ‘ājā’ kari’ māne

Translation

The Lord continued, “Your father and his elder brother are both related as brothers to My grandfather, Nīlāmbara Cakravartī. Therefore I consider them My grandfathers.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Affectionate Relationships Give Context to Joking

  1. 1

    Nīlāmbara Cakravartī was intimately related to Raghunātha dāsa’s father and uncle. He called them his younger brothers because they were respectable gentlemen devoted to the brāhmaṇas.

  2. 2

    They addressed him as Dādā Cakravartī, an elder brother brāhmaṇa. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore considered them His grandfathers.

  3. 3

    A grandchild may joke about his grandfather. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu used this relationship as the setting for His joking words.

Key points from the purport
  • Nīlāmbara Cakravartī, the grandfather of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, was very intimately related to Raghunātha dāsa’s father and uncle.
  • Nīlāmbara Cakravartī used to call them his younger brothers because both of them were very much devoted to the brāhmaṇas and were very respectable gentlemen.
  • Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took advantage of the relationship between His grandfather and Raghunātha dāsa’s father and uncle to speak in a joking way.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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:

Therefore another name for Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī is Svarūpera Raghu, or the Raghunātha of Svarūpa Dāmodara. For five days Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī took prasādam at the temple, but later he would stand at the Siṁha-dvāra gate and eat only whatever he could gather by alms.
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. prabhu kahenaLord Caitanya Mahāprabhu said
  2. tomārayour
  3. pitā-jyeṭhāfather and his elder brother
  4. dui janeboth of them
  5. cakravartī-sambandhebecause of a relationship with Nīlāmbara Cakravartī
  6. hāmaI
  7. ājā kari’as My grandfathers
  8. māneconsider
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling

    Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “relationship”

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 this affectionate relationship help you understand the Lord’s words?

Practice

Before reading the following remarks, recall the family relationship that frames them.

Live this todayAffectionate Relationships Give Context to JokingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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