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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 19: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī
Madhya 19.118Madhya 19.120

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.119

কালেন বৃন্দাবনকেলিবার্তা

লুপ্তেতি তাং খ্যাপয়িতুং বিশিষ্য ।

কৃপামৃতেনাভিষিষেচ দেব-

স্তত্রৈব রূপঞ্চ সনাতনঞ্চ ॥ ১১৯ ॥

kālena vṛndāvana-keli-vārtā

lupteti tāṁ khyāpayituṁ viśiṣya

kṛpāmṛtenābhiṣiṣeca devas

tatraiva rūpaṁ ca sanātanaṁ ca

Translation

“In the course of time, the transcendental news of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in Vṛndāvana was almost lost. To enunciate explicitly those transcendental pastimes, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu empowered Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī with the nectar of His mercy to carry out this work in Vṛndāvana.”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Mercy Empowers the Description of Kṛṣṇa’s Pastimes

  1. 1

    In the course of time, the transcendental news of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in Vṛndāvana was almost lost.

  2. 2

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu empowered Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī with the nectar of His mercy.

  3. 3

    Their work was to describe those transcendental pastimes explicitly in Vṛndāvana. This passage comes from Kavi-karṇapūra’s Caitanya-candrodaya.

Key points from the purport
  • This verse and the following two verses are from Act Nine (38, 29, 30) of the Caitanya-candrodaya, by Śrī Kavi-karṇapūra.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Empowerment and hope. The seed of bhakti is received, planted, and watered; intimate realization becomes transmissible.

The mood of Madhya 19 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 19: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu started for Vṛndāvana through the forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa, Rūpa Gosvāmī left home and sent news to Sanātana that he was leaving with his younger brother (Anupama Mallika) to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī finally reached Prayāga and met with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for ten successive days.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. kālenain the course of time
  2. vṛndāvana-keli-vārtātopics concerning the transcendental mellows of the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana
  3. luptāalmost lost
  4. itithus
  5. tāmall those
  6. khyāpayitumto enunciate
  7. viśiṣyamaking specific
  8. kṛpā-amṛtenawith the nectar of mercy
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life

    Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “mercy”

  • 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”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the Lord’s mercy in preserving news of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes deepen your appreciation for these teachings?

Practice

Pause today to express gratitude for the mercy by which Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes were clearly described.

Live this todayMercy Empowers the Description of Kṛṣṇa’s PastimesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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