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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 7.4
এইমত বিলাস প্রভুর ভক্তগণ লঞা ।
হেনকালে বল্লভ-ভট্ট মিলিল আসিয়া ॥ ৪ ॥
ei-mata vilāsa prabhura bhakta-gaṇa lañā
hena-kāle vallabha-bhaṭṭa milila āsiyā
Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu performed His pastimes with His devotees. Then a learned scholar named Vallabha Bhaṭṭa went to Jagannātha Purī to meet the Lord.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu performed His pastimes with His devotees.
Vallabha Bhaṭṭa is introduced as a learned scholar.
He went to Jagannātha Purī to meet the Lord.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can your study support your desire to draw nearer to the Lord?
Pause before studying today and reflect on Vallabha Bhaṭṭa’s purpose: to meet the Lord.
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