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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.312
দামোদর-স্বরূপের কড়চা-অনুসারে ।
রামানন্দ-মিলন-লীলা করিল প্রচারে ॥ ৩১২ ॥
dāmodara-svarūpera kaḍacā-anusāre
rāmānanda-milana-līlā karila pracāre
I have tried to preach the pastimes of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s meeting with Rāmānanda Rāya in accordance with the notebooks of Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara.
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The author presents the meeting with Rāmānanda Rāya according to Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara’s notebooks. He acknowledges his debt to authoritative persons rather than claiming independent research.
One must strictly follow great personalities and ācāryas. One who has the favor of the ācārya knows everything.
Transcendental knowledge does not come simply from hearing someone called a guru. The guru must be bona fide and must have heard from his own bona fide guru.
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The purport of CC Madhya 8.312 quotesBG 4.1
Lord Kṛṣṇa confirms this in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.1):
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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
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In this verse: “favor”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I value the disciplic succession when choosing whose spiritual teachings to hear?
Write down the two qualifications stated here: a guru must be bona fide and must have heard from his own bona fide guru.
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