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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 1.44
গোপালচম্পূ-নামে গ্রন্থমহাশূর ।
নিত্যলীলা স্থাপন যাহে ব্রজরস-পূর ॥ ৪৪ ॥
gopāla-campū-nāme grantha-mahāśūra
nitya-līlā sthāpana yāhe vraja-rasa-pūra
The most famous and formidable transcendental literature is the book named Gopāla-campū. In this book the eternal pastimes of the Lord are established, and the transcendental mellows enjoyed in Vṛndāvana are completely described.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Gopāla-campū establishes the Lord’s eternal pastimes and fully describes the transcendental mellows enjoyed in Vṛndāvana.
The book has two parts: the eastern wave and the northern wave. They contain thirty-three and thirty-seven supplications respectively.
The first part describes Vṛndāvana and Goloka, Kṛṣṇa’s childhood pastimes, His tending of the cows and His lifting of Govardhana Hill. It also describes His pastimes with the gopīs.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Anticipation and hidden longing. The author previews later pastimes, including the inner Vraja mood expressed at Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 1 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:
All of these are described in brief. There is also a description of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstasy that occurred when He recited the verse beginning yaḥ kaumāra-haraḥ, as well as a description of how that ecstasy was explained in the verse beginning priyaḥ so ’yaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ, by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 1
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”, “gopīs”, “govardhana”
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”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which of the pastimes listed here would I like to study more attentively?
Choose one pastime named in the purport and write down its name as a topic for further study.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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