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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.241
পুনঃ সমর্পিলা তাঁরে স্বরূপের স্থানে ।
‘অন্তরঙ্গ-সেবা’ করে স্বরূপের সনে ॥ ২৪১ ॥
punaḥ samarpilā tāṅre svarūpera sthāne
‘antaraṅga-sevā’ kare svarūpera sane
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again entrusted him to Svarūpa Dāmodara. Thus Raghunātha dāsa rendered very confidential service with Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again entrusts Raghunātha dāsa to Svarūpa Dāmodara. Raghunātha dāsa then renders very confidential service with him.
The purport explains that antaraṅga-sevā refers to service performed in one’s spiritual body.
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was formerly Lalitādevī. Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, among his assistants, also began serving Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa within his mind.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu entrusted Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. Therefore another name for Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī is Svarūpera Raghu, or the Raghunātha of Svarūpa Dāmodara.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 6
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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: “service”, “serving”
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: “rādhā”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Raghunātha dāsa’s service show me about the value of devotional guidance?
Spend a quiet moment thinking of how to serve Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, remembering the guidance described here.
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