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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.301
‘বিদ্যাপুরে’ নানা-মত লোক বৈসে যত ।
প্রভু-দর্শনে ‘বৈষ্ণব’ হৈল ছাড়ি’ নিজমত ॥ ৩০১ ॥
‘vidyāpūre’ nānā-mata loka vaise yata
prabhu-darśane ‘vaiṣṇava’ haila chāḍi’ nija-mata
All the residents of Vidyānagara were of different faiths, but after seeing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they abandoned their own faiths and became Vaiṣṇavas.
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The residents of Vidyānagara belonged to different faiths.
After seeing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they abandoned their former faiths.
They became Vaiṣṇavas. The translation describes this change among all the residents.
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:
Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya also explained that all stages of conjugal love can be attained through the mercy of the residents of Vṛndāvana, especially by the mercy of the gopīs. All these subject matters were thus vividly described.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
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