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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.73
গোপীনাথ কহে, — ইঁহার নাহি বাহ্যাপেক্ষা ।
অতএব বড় সম্প্রদায়ের নাহিক অপেক্ষা ॥ ৭৩ ॥
gopīnātha kahe, — iṅhāra nāhi bāhyāpekṣā
ataeva baḍa sampradāyera nāhika apekṣā
Gopīnātha Ācārya replied, “Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu does not rely on any external formality. There is no need for Him to accept the sannyāsa order from a superior sampradāya.”
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Gopīnātha Ācārya explains that Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu does not rely on external formality. He has no need to accept sannyāsa from a superior sampradāya.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted sannyāsa from the Bhāratī sampradāya, which belongs to the disciplic succession of Śaṅkarācārya. Different sannyāsa names were assigned different ranks.
The name Bhāratī describes one who is completely educated and freed from ignorance. Such a person is never unhappy, even in a distressed condition.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
The mood of Madhya 6 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:
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “gopīnātha”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I give more attention to an external rank than to the qualities it is meant to represent?
Write down one quality associated with the name Bhāratī and reflect on it for a minute.
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