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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 1.83
ভাগবতের শ্লোক-গূঢ়ার্থ বিশদ করিঞা ।
রূপ-গোসাঞি শ্লোক কৈল লোক বুঝাইঞা ॥ ৮৩ ॥
bhāgavatera śloka-gūḍhārtha viśada kariñā
rūpa-gosāñi śloka kaila loka bujhāiñā
In one verse, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has explained the confidential meaning of the verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for the understanding of the general populace.
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Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī explained the confidential meaning of a verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
He expressed this explanation in a single verse.
His explanation was meant for the understanding of the general populace.
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:
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. Because he wrote that verse, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was specifically blessed by the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 1
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does an accessible explanation help you approach a confidential teaching?
Reread the translation and note whom Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī intended to help.
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