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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 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Madhya 2.83Madhya 2.85

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 2.84

চৈতন্যলীলা-রত্ন-সার,     স্বরূপের ভাণ্ডার,

তেঁহো থুইলা রঘুনাথের কণ্ঠে ।

তাহাঁ কিছু যে শুনিলুঁ,     তাহা ইহাঁ বিস্তারিলুঁ,

ভক্তগণে দিলুঁ এই ভেটে ॥ ৮৪ ॥

caitanya-līlā-ratna-sāra, svarūpera bhāṇḍāra,

teṅho thuilā raghunāthera kaṇṭhe

tāhāṅ kichu ye śuniluṅ, tāhā ihāṅ vistāriluṅ,

bhakta-gaṇe diluṅ ei bheṭe

Translation

The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are the topmost of jewels. They have been kept in the storehouse of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, who has explained them to Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who has repeated them to me. Whatever little I have heard from Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī I have described in this book, which is presented to all devotees.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Receive the Pastimes Through Disciplic Succession

  1. 1

    Svarūpa Dāmodara, the personal secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, recorded His activities. He repeated them to Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who memorized them.

  2. 2

    Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī recorded what he heard from Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.

  3. 3

    This transmission is the paramparā system, or disciplic succession. Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta contains the essence of instruction received through this succession from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Key points from the purport
  • All the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu were noted by His personal secretary Svarūpa Dāmodara and repeated to Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who memorized them.
  • Whatever Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī heard is recorded in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.
  • Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has distributed this information in his book Caitanya-caritāmṛta.

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

Overwhelming divine separation. A preview of the last years reveals the Lord’s intense separation from Kṛṣṇa.

The mood of Madhya 2 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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

Over and above this are the notes of Svarūpa Dāmodara, memorized by Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who also helped in the compilation of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. After the disappearance of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī went to Vṛndāvana.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 2
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. caitanya-līlāthe pastimes of Lord Caitanya
  2. ratna-sārathe topmost jewel
  3. svarūperaof Svarūpa Dāmodara
  4. bhāṇḍāraof the storehouse
  5. teṅhohe
  6. thuilākept
  7. raghunāthera kaṇṭhein the throat of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī
  8. tāhāṅthere
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does knowing the source of these accounts affect the way I receive them?

Practice

Write the chain of transmission given here, from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī.

Live this todayReceive the Pastimes Through Disciplic SuccessionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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