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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 7.36
এ সব শিখাইলা মোরে রায়-রামানন্দ ।
অনর্গল রসবেত্তা প্রেমসুখানন্দ ॥ ৩৬ ॥
e saba śikhāilā more rāya-rāmānanda
anargala rasa-vettā prema-sukhānanda
“Rāmānanda Rāya is extremely aware of transcendental mellows. He is incessantly absorbed in the happiness of ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. It is he who has taught Me all this.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmānanda Rāya is extremely aware of transcendental mellows—the loving relationships described in these verses.
He is incessantly absorbed in the happiness of ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.
The speaker credits Rāmānanda Rāya with teaching him all this, acknowledging him as a teacher of these truths.
Pride softened by grace. Humor and correction lead toward humility and a relationship of devotion.
The mood of Antya 7 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:
In this chapter, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s meeting with Vallabha Bhaṭṭa is described. There was some joking behavior between these two personalities, and finally Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu corrected Vallabha Bhaṭṭa and sympathetically accepted an invitation from him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 7
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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: “mellows”, “relationships”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this appreciation of Rāmānanda Rāya teach you about receiving spiritual instruction?
Reread the verse and note one quality of Rāmānanda Rāya that you appreciate.
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