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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.246
‘কীর্তিগণংমধ্যে জীবের কোন্ বড় কীর্তি?’
‘কৃষ্ণভক্ত বলিয়া যাঁহার হয় খ্যাতি ॥’ ২৪৬ ॥
‘kīrti-gaṇa-madhye jīvera kon baḍa kīrti?’
‘kṛṣṇa-bhakta baliyā yāṅhāra haya khyāti’
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then asked Rāmānanda Rāya, “Out of all glorious activities, which is the most glorious?”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asks which activity is most glorious.
Rāmānanda Rāya points to the person reputed to be a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Such a devotee enjoys the utmost fame and glory.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
After some days, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Rāmānanda Rāya to retire from government service and come to Jagannātha Purī. These descriptions of the meetings between Rāmānanda Rāya and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are taken from the notebook of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What kind of recognition matters to you in light of this teaching?
Pause today and reflect on why being a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is more glorious than other recognition.
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