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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 11.71
ভট্ট কহে, — অট্টালিকায় কর আরোহণ ।
গোপীনাথ চিনে সবারে, করাবে দরশন ॥ ৭১ ॥
bhaṭṭa kahe, — aṭṭālikāya kara ārohaṇa
gopīnātha cine sabāre, karābe daraśana
Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya requested the King, “Go up on the roof of the palace. Gopīnātha Ācārya knows every one of the devotees. He will identify them for you.
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Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya asked the King to go up on the roof of the palace.
Gopīnātha Ācārya knew every one of the devotees.
He would identify the devotees for the King.
Communal anticipation. Arriving devotees, kīrtana, and longing to meet the Lord converge.
The mood of Madhya 11 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:
Gopīnātha Ācārya stood on the roof with the King, and, following Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya’s instructions, identified each and every devotee. The King discussed the devotees with Gopīnātha Ācārya, and he mentioned that the devotees were accepting prasādam without observing the regulative principles governing pilgrimages.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 11
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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: “gopīnātha”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Who can help me become acquainted with devotees I do not know?
Ask someone familiar with the devotees to help you identify one person.
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