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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.319
প্ৰশ্নোত্তরে ভাগবতে করিয়াছে নির্ধার ।
যাঁহার শ্রবণে লোকে লাগে চমৎকার ॥ ৩১৯ ॥
praśnottare bhāgavate kariyāche nirdhāra
yāṅhāra śravaṇe loke lāge camatkāra
“The form of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is given in questions and answers. Thus the conclusion is established. By hearing these questions and answers, one is highly astonished.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam takes the form of questions and answers.
Through these questions and answers, its conclusion is established.
Hearing these exchanges fills the listener with astonishment.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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:
Sanātana Gosvāmī then offered a prayer to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the glory of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. After this, the Lord gave Sanātana Gosvāmī a synopsis of Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, which Sanātana Gosvāmī later developed into the guiding principle of all Vaiṣṇavas.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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