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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.103
তুমিহ করিহ ভক্তি-শাস্ত্রের প্রচার ।
মথুরায় লুপ্ততীর্থের করিহ উদ্ধার ॥ ১০৩ ॥
tumiha kariha bhakti-śāstrera pracāra
mathurāya lupta-tīrthera kariha uddhāra
“O Sanātana, you should broadcast the revealed scriptures on devotional service and excavate the lost places of pilgrimage in the district of Mathurā.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu instructed Sanātana to broadcast the revealed scriptures on devotional service.
He also asked Sanātana to excavate the lost places of pilgrimage in the district of Mathurā.
Sanātana’s service thus included both spreading scriptural teachings and recovering places of pilgrimage.
Theological emotional crescendo. Bhāva, prema, the devotional rasas, and mahābhāva are systematically expounded.
The mood of Madhya 23 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:
The Lord also informs Sanātana Gosvāmī about all the confidential paraphernalia of devotional service. He gives a description of Goloka Vṛndāvana, where the Lord is engaged in His eternal pastimes described in the Hari-vaṁśa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 23
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Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
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