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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.53
সার্বভৌম কহে, — নীলাম্বর চক্রবর্তী ।
বিশারদের সমাধ্যায়ী, — এই তাঁর খ্যাতি ॥ ৫৩ ॥
sārvabhauma kahe, — nīlāmbara cakravartī
viśāradera samādhyāyī, — ei tāṅra khyāti
The Bhaṭṭācārya said, “Nīlāmbara Cakravartī was a classmate of my father, Maheśvara Viśārada. I knew him as such.
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The Bhaṭṭācārya’s father was Maheśvara Viśārada.
Nīlāmbara Cakravartī was a classmate of Maheśvara Viśārada.
The Bhaṭṭācārya knew Nīlāmbara Cakravartī as his father’s classmate.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
His brother-in-law, Gopīnātha Ācārya, established that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was Kṛṣṇa Himself, but Sārvabhauma and his many disciples could not accept this. However, Gopīnātha Ācārya convinced Sārvabhauma that no one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead without being favored by Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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What relationship helped the Bhaṭṭācārya recognize Nīlāmbara Cakravartī?
Write one sentence describing the connection between Nīlāmbara Cakravartī and Maheśvara Viśārada.
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