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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 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya
Madhya 7.155Madhya 8.2

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.1

সঞ্চার্য রামাভিধ-ভক্তমেঘে

স্বভক্তিসিদ্ধান্তচয়ামৃতানি ।

গৌরাব্ধিরেতৈরমুনা বিতীর্ণৈ-

স্তজ্জ্ঞত্ব-রত্নালয়তাং প্রযাতি ॥ ১ ॥

sañcārya rāmābhidha-bhakta-meghe

sva-bhakti-siddhānta-cayāmṛtāni

gaurābdhir etair amunā vitīrṇais

taj-jñatva-ratnālayatāṁ prayāti

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is known as Gaurāṅga, is the ocean of all conclusive knowledge in devotional service. He empowered Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya, who may be likened to a cloud of devotional service. This cloud was filled with the water of all the conclusive purports of devotional service and was empowered by the ocean to spread this water over the sea of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself. Thus the ocean of Caitanya Mahāprabhu became filled with the jewels of the knowledge of pure devotional service.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

An Ocean of Devotional Knowledge

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, known as Gaurāṅga, is the ocean of all conclusive knowledge in devotional service.

  2. 2

    He empowered Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya, who is compared to a cloud filled with the water of devotional conclusions.

  3. 3

    This cloud poured its water over Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself. Thus His ocean became filled with jewels of knowledge of pure devotional service.

How it feels

Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.

The mood of Madhya 8 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya

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

After visiting the temple of Jiyaḍa-nṛsiṁha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the banks of the river Godāvarī, to a place known as Vidyānagara. When Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya went there to take his bath, they met.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. sañcāryaby empowering
  2. rāma-abhidhaof the name Rāma
  3. bhakta-meghein the cloudlike devotee
  4. sva-bhaktiof His own devotional service
  5. siddhāntaof conclusions
  6. cayaall collections
  7. amṛtāninectar
  8. gaura-abdhiḥthe ocean known as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Sevā · Love translated into service

    Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “service”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the image of devotional knowledge as jewels help you appreciate?

Practice

Reread the ocean-and-cloud comparison and write down one thing it teaches about devotional knowledge.

Live this todayAn Ocean of Devotional KnowledgeThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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