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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.250
‘গান-মধ্যে কোন্ গান — জীবের নিজ ধর্ম?’
‘রাধাকৃষ্ণের প্রেমকেলি’ — যেই গীতের মর্ম’ ॥ ২৫০ ॥
‘gāna-madhye kona gāna — jīvera nija dharma?’
‘rādhā-kṛṣṇera prema-keli’ — yei gītera marma’
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu next asked Rāmānanda Rāya, “Among many songs, which song is to be considered the actual religion of the living entity?”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asks which song is the actual religion of the living entity.
Rāmānanda Rāya points to songs describing the loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.
He declares such a song superior to all other songs.
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:
He next described the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the transcendental mellows of love of God. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya then recited a verse of his own concerning the platform of ecstatic vision, technically called prema-vilāsa-vivarta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhā”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How could this teaching guide your choice of songs?
Listen to or sing one song describing the loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa today.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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