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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2>
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<div id="BG_Preface_and_Introduction" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Preface and Introduction"><h3>BG Preface and Introduction</h3>
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<div id="BGIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Preface_and_Introduction" book="BG" index="3" link="BG Introduction" link_text="BG Introduction">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG (1972) Introduction|BG Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ (Bhagavad-gītā 4.2). This Bhagavad-gītā As It Is is received through this disciplic succession:</p>
<p>1. Kṛṣṇa</p>
<p>2. Brahmā</p>
<p>3. Nārada</p>
<p>4. Vyāsa</p>
<p>5. Madhva</p>
<p>6. Padmanābha</p>
<p>7. Nṛhari</p>
<p>8. Mādhava</p>
<p>9. Akṣobhya</p>
<p>10. Jaya Tīrtha</p>
<p>11. Jñānasindhu</p>
<p>12. Dayānidhi</p>
<p>13. Vidyānidhi</p>
<p>14. Rājendra</p>
<p>15. Jayadharma</p>
<p>16. Puruṣottama</p>
<p>17. Brahmaṇya Tīrtha</p>
<p>18. Vyāsa Tīrtha</p>
<p>19. Lakṣmīpati</p>
<p>20. Mādhavendra Purī</p>
<p>21. Īśvara Purī, (Nityānanda, Advaita)</p>
<p>22. Lord Caitanya</p>
<p>23. Rūpa, (Svarūpa, Sanātana)</p>
<p>24. Raghunātha, Jīva</p>
<p>25. Kṛṣṇadāsa</p>
<p>26. Narottama</p>
<p>27. Viśvanātha</p>
<p>28. (Baladeva) Jagannātha</p>
<p>29. Bhaktivinoda</p>
<p>30. Gaurakiśora</p>
<p>31. Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī</p>
<p>32. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Preface_and_Introduction" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Preface and Introduction"><h3>SB Preface and Introduction</h3>
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<div id="SBIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Preface_and_Introduction" book="SB" index="1" link="SB Introduction" link_text="SB Introduction">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB Introduction|SB Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord's early life was recorded by one of His chief devotees and contemporaries, namely Śrīla Murāri Gupta, a medical practitioner of that time, and the latter part of the life of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was recorded by His private secretary Śrī Dāmodara Gosvāmī, or Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara, who was practically a constant companion of the Lord at Purī. These two devotees recorded practically all the incidents of the Lord's activities, and later on all the books dealing with the Lord, which are above mentioned, were composed on the basis of kaḍacās (notebooks) by Śrīla Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Murāri Gupta.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_1" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3>
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<div id="SB1340_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="96" link="SB 1.3.40" link_text="SB 1.3.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.3.40|SB 1.3.40, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam should be worshiped as respectfully as we worship the Lord. Thereby we can derive the ultimate blessings of the Lord through its careful and patient study. As God is all light, all bliss and all perfection, so also is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. We can have all the transcendental light of the Supreme Brahman, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, from the recitation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, provided it is received through the medium of the transparent spiritual master. Lord Caitanya's private secretary Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī advised all intending visitors who came to see the Lord at Purī to make a study of the Bhāgavatam from the person Bhāgavatam.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<div id="SB3138_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="488" link="SB 3.13.8" link_text="SB 3.13.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.13.8|SB 3.13.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The disciplic succession from Brahmā is called the Brahma-sampradāya, and it descends as follows: Brahmā, Nārada, Vyāsa, Madhva Muni (Pūrṇaprajña), Padmanābha, Nṛhari, Mādhava, Akṣobhya, Jayatīrtha, Jñānasindhu, Dayānidhi, Vidyānidhi, Rājendra, Jayadharma, Puruṣottama, Brahmaṇyatīrtha, Vyāsatīrtha, Lakṣmīpati, Mādhavendra Purī, Īśvara Purī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī and others, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Kṛṣṇadāsa Gosvāmī, Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī, Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_9" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 9"><h3>SB Canto 9</h3>
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<div id="SB91011_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="357" link="SB 9.10.11" link_text="SB 9.10.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.10.11|SB 9.10.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As explained by Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī-śaktiḥ: the dealings of love between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are displayed as the pleasure potency of the Lord. The Lord is the original source of all pleasure, the reservoir of all pleasure.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_101_to_1013" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3>
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<div id="SB101357_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="560" link="SB 10.13.57" link_text="SB 10.13.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.13.57|SB 10.13.57, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The saṁvit, sandhinī and āhlādinī potencies—Kṛṣṇa's potency for existence, His potency for knowledge and His potency for pleasure—are distinct from yogamāyā. Each is an individual potency. The āhlādinī potency is Rādhārāṇī. As Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has explained, rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmāt ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 1.5|CC Adi 1.5]]). The āhlādinī-śakti is manifested as Rādhārāṇī, but Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī are the same, although one is potent and the other is potency.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi1Summary_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1" link="CC Adi 1 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 1 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 1 Summary|CC Adi 1 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is none other than the combined form of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. He is the life of those devotees who strictly follow in the footsteps of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī are the two principal followers of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, who acted as the most confidential servitor of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, known as Viśvambhara in His early life. A direct disciple of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī. The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, stands as the direct disciple of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4Summary_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="340" link="CC Adi 4 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 4 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4 Summary|CC Adi 4 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was the principal figure among Lord Caitanya's confidential devotees. The records of his diary have revealed these confidential purposes of the Lord. These revelations have been confirmed by the statements of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī in his various prayers and poems.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi441_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="376" link="CC Adi 4.41" link_text="CC Adi 4.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.41|CC Adi 4.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has described Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa Himself with the attitude of Rādhārāṇī, or a combination of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. The intention of Lord Caitanya is to taste Kṛṣṇa's sweetness in transcendental love. He does not care to think of Himself as Kṛṣṇa, because He wants the position of Rādhārāṇī. We should remember this.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi441_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="376" link="CC Adi 4.41" link_text="CC Adi 4.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.41|CC Adi 4.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya has accepted the role of Rādhārāṇī, and we should support that position, as Svarūpa Dāmodara did in the Gambhīrā (the room where Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu stayed in Purī). He always reminded Lord Caitanya of Rādhā’s feelings of separation as they are described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and Lord Caitanya appreciated his assistance. But the gaura-nāgarīs, who place Lord Caitanya in the position of enjoyer and themselves as His enjoyed, are not approved by Lord Caitanya or by Lord Caitanya's followers. Instead of being blessed, the foolish imitators are left completely apart. Their concoctions are against the principles of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi455_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="390" link="CC Adi 4.55" link_text="CC Adi 4.55">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.55|CC Adi 4.55, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord's internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This text is from the diary of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. It appears as the fifth of the first fourteen verses of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi456_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="391" link="CC Adi 4.56" link_text="CC Adi 4.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.56|CC Adi 4.56, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one and the same, but They have assumed two bodies. Thus They enjoy each other, tasting the mellows of love.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The two transcendentalists Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are a puzzle to materialists. The above description of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa from the diary of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī is a condensed explanation, but one needs great spiritual insight to understand the mystery of these two personalities. One is enjoying in two. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the potent factor, and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the internal potency. According to Vedānta philosophy, there is no difference between the potent and the potency; they are identical. We cannot differentiate between one and the other, any more than we can separate fire from heat.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4104_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="437" link="CC Adi 4.104" link_text="CC Adi 4.104">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.104|CC Adi 4.104, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">That most confidential cause is threefold. Svarūpa Dāmodara has revealed it.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4105_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="438" link="CC Adi 4.105" link_text="CC Adi 4.105">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.105|CC Adi 4.105, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Gosāñi is the most intimate associate of the Lord. He therefore knows all these topics well.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4105_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="438" link="CC Adi 4.105" link_text="CC Adi 4.105">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.105|CC Adi 4.105, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Prior to the Lord's acceptance of the renounced order, Puruṣottama Bhaṭṭācārya, a resident of Navadvīpa, desired to enter the renounced order of life. Therefore he left home and went to Benares, where he accepted the position of brahmacarya from a Māyāvādī sannyāsī. When he became a brahmacārī, he was given the name Śrī Dāmodara Svarūpa. He left Benares shortly thereafter, without taking sannyāsa, and he came to Nīlācala, Jagannātha Purī, where Lord Caitanya was staying. He met Caitanya Mahāprabhu there and dedicated his life for the service of the Lord. He became Lord Caitanya's secretary and constant companion. He used to enhance the pleasure potency of the Lord by singing appropriate songs, which were very much appreciated. Svarūpa Dāmodara could understand the secret mission of Lord Caitanya, and it was by his grace only that all the devotees of Lord Caitanya could know the real purpose of the Lord.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara has been identified as Lalitā-devī, the second expansion of Rādhārāṇī. However, text 160 of Kavi-karṇapūra's  authoritative Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā describes Svarūpa Dāmodara as the same Viśākhā-devī who serves the Lord in Goloka Vṛndāvana. Therefore it is to be understood that Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara is a direct expansion of Rādhārāṇī who helps the Lord experience the attitude of Rādhārāṇī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4106_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="439" link="CC Adi 4.106" link_text="CC Adi 4.106">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.106|CC Adi 4.106, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya's heart was full of the feelings of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and His appearance resembled Hers. Svarūpa Dāmodara has explained His attitude as rādhā-bhāva-mūrti, the attitude of Rādhārāṇī. One who engages in sense gratification on the material platform can hardly understand rādhā-bhāva, but one who is freed from the demands of sense gratification can understand it.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4107_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="440" link="CC Adi 4.107" link_text="CC Adi 4.107">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.107|CC Adi 4.107, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Materialists are most abominable in their ideas. They think that they can enjoy directly perceivable gross objects by their senses and that they can similarly deal with the transcendental features of Lord Caitanya. But the Lord is understood only in pursuance of the principles laid down by the Gosvāmīs, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara. Doctrines like those of the nadīyā-nāgarīs, a class of so-called devotees, are never presented by authorized persons like Svarūpa Dāmodara or the six Gosvāmīs. The ideas of the gaurāṅga-nāgarīs are simply a mental concoction, and they are completely on the mental platform.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4109_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="442" link="CC Adi 4.109" link_text="CC Adi 4.109">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.109|CC Adi 4.109, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At night He talked incoherently in grief with His arms around Svarūpa Dāmodara's neck. He spoke out His heart in ecstatic inspiration.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4110_12" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="443" link="CC Adi 4.110" link_text="CC Adi 4.110">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.110|CC Adi 4.110, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Whenever a particular sentiment arose in His heart, Svarūpa Dāmodara satisfied Him by singing songs or reciting verses of the same nature.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4160_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="492" link="CC Adi 4.160" link_text="CC Adi 4.160">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.160|CC Adi 4.160, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This conclusion of rasa is extremely deep. Only Svarūpa Dāmodara knows much about it.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4227228_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="556" link="CC Adi 4.227-228" link_text="CC Adi 4.227-228">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.227-228|CC Adi 4.227-228, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Advaita Ācārya, Lord Nityānanda, Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita, Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Murāri Gupta, Haridāsa Ṭhākura and all the other devotees of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya—bowing down with devotion, I hold their lotus feet on my head.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi57_15" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="611" link="CC Adi 5.7" link_text="CC Adi 5.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.7|CC Adi 5.7, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">May Śrī Nityānanda Rāma be the object of my constant remembrance. Saṅkarṣaṇa, Śeṣa Nāga and the Viṣṇus who lie on the Kāraṇa Ocean, Garbha Ocean and ocean of milk are His plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has recorded this verse in his diary to offer his respectful obeisances to Lord Nityānanda Prabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi513_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="617" link="CC Adi 5.13" link_text="CC Adi 5.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.13|CC Adi 5.13, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I surrender unto the lotus feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, who is known as Saṅkarṣaṇa in the midst of the catur-vyūha (consisting of Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha). He possesses full opulences and resides in Vaikuṇṭhaloka, far beyond the material creation.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This is a verse from Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī’s diary. It appears as the eighth of the first fourteen verses of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi5202_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="803" link="CC Adi 5.202" link_text="CC Adi 5.202">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.202|CC Adi 5.202, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">By His mercy I have attained the shelter of the great personality Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, and by His mercy I have found the refuge of Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi5202_18" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="803" link="CC Adi 5.202" link_text="CC Adi 5.202">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.202|CC Adi 5.202, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone desiring to become expert in the service of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa should always aspire to be under the guidance of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī. To come under the protection of the Gosvāmīs, one must get the mercy and grace of Nityānanda Prabhu. The author has tried to explain this fact in these two verses.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi711_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="961" link="CC Adi 7.11" link_text="CC Adi 7.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.11|CC Adi 7.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is to be concluded that although Lord Caitanya is present in the form of a devotee, He is Kṛṣṇa Himself. Therefore Vaiṣṇavas sing, śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya: "Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa combined together are Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu." And as Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has said, caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptam: Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa assumed oneness in the form of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7110_20" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1054" link="CC Adi 7.110" link_text="CC Adi 7.110">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.110|CC Adi 7.110, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">How the Māyāvāda philosophy was condemned by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His followers is described in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Second Chapter, verses 94 through 99, where Svarūpa-dāmodara Gosvāmī says that anyone who is eager to understand the Māyāvāda philosophy must be considered insane. This especially applies to a Vaiṣṇava who reads the Śārīraka-bhāṣya and considers himself to be one with God.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi91315_21" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1214" link="CC Adi 9.13-15" link_text="CC Adi 9.13-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.13-15|CC Adi 9.13-15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Among his sannyāsī disciples, Īśvara Purī and Paramānanda Purī were very dear to Mādhavendra Purī. Thus Paramānanda Purī, like Svarūpa Dāmodara, who was also a sannyāsī, was very dear to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and was His constant associate. When Lord Caitanya accepted the renounced order, Paramānanda Purī offered Him the daṇḍa. Paramānanda Purī was always engaged in meditation, and Śrī Svarūpa was always engaged in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. As Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu offered full respect to His spiritual master, Īśvara Purī, He similarly respected Paramānanda Purī and Svarūpa Dāmodara."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1014_22" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1269" link="CC Adi 10.14" link_text="CC Adi 10.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.14|CC Adi 10.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu called Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi "father," and He gave him the title Premanidhi. Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi later became the spiritual master of Gadādhara Paṇḍita and an intimate friend of Svarūpa Dāmodara's.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1015_23" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1270" link="CC Adi 10.15" link_text="CC Adi 10.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.15|CC Adi 10.15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (147–53) it is stated, "The pleasure potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa formerly known as Vṛndāvaneśvarī is now personified in the form of Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu." Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has pointed out that in the shape of Lakṣmī, the pleasure potency of Kṛṣṇa, she was formerly very dear to the Lord as Śyāmasundara-vallabhā. The same Śyāmasundara-vallabhā was present in Lord Caitanya's pastimes as Gadādhara Paṇḍita. Formerly, as Lalitā-sakhī, she was always devoted to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Thus Gadādhara Paṇḍita is simultaneously an incarnation of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and Lalitā-sakhī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1092_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1346" link="CC Adi 10.92" link_text="CC Adi 10.92">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.92|CC Adi 10.92, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī approached Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī, the Lord entrusted him to the care of Svarūpa Dāmodara, His secretary. Thus they both engaged in the confidential service of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1092_25" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1346" link="CC Adi 10.92" link_text="CC Adi 10.92">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.92|CC Adi 10.92, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This confidential service was the personal care of the Lord. Svarūpa Dāmodara, acting as His secretary, attended to the Lord's baths, meals, rest and massages, and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī assisted him. In effect, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī acted as the assistant secretary of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1093_26" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1347" link="CC Adi 10.93" link_text="CC Adi 10.93">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.93|CC Adi 10.93, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">He rendered confidential service to the Lord for sixteen years at Jagannātha Purī, and after the disappearance of both the Lord and Svarūpa Dāmodara, he left Jagannātha Purī and went to Vṛndāvana.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1094_27" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1348" link="CC Adi 10.94" link_text="CC Adi 10.94">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.94|CC Adi 10.94, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Jumping from the top of Govardhana Hill is a system of suicide especially performed by saintly persons. After the disappearance of Lord Caitanya and Svarūpa Dāmodara, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī keenly felt separation from these two exalted personalities and therefore decided to give up his life by jumping from Govardhana Hill in Vṛndāvana. Before doing so, however, he wanted to see the lotus feet of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1097_28" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1351" link="CC Adi 10.97" link_text="CC Adi 10.97">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.97|CC Adi 10.97, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Because Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was an assistant to Svarūpa Dāmodara, he knew much about the external and internal features of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya. Thus the two brothers Rūpa and Sanātana always used to hear of this from him.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10124126_29" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1378" link="CC Adi 10.124-126" link_text="CC Adi 10.124-126">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.124-126|CC Adi 10.124-126, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Among the devotees who accompanied the Lord in Jagannātha Purī, two of them—Paramānanda Purī and Svarūpa Dāmodara—were the heart and soul of the Lord. Among the other devotees were Gadādhara, Jagadānanda, Śaṅkara, Vakreśvara, Dāmodara Paṇḍita, Ṭhākura Haridāsa, Raghunātha Vaidya and Raghunātha dāsa.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10131_30" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1383" link="CC Adi 10.131" link_text="CC Adi 10.131">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.131|CC Adi 10.131, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the list of devotees at Jagannātha Purī (which begins with Paramānanda Purī, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and Gopīnātha Ācārya), Kāśī Miśra was the fifth, Pradyumna Miśra the sixth and Bhavānanda Rāya the seventh. Lord Caitanya took great pleasure in meeting with them.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10134_31" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1386" link="CC Adi 10.134" link_text="CC Adi 10.134">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.134|CC Adi 10.134, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's final pastimes, Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara always engaged in reciting suitable verses from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and other books to pacify the Lord's ecstatic feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10135136_32" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1387" link="CC Adi 10.135-136" link_text="CC Adi 10.135-136">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.135-136|CC Adi 10.135-136, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhagavān Ācārya, a very learned scholar, was formerly an inhabitant of Hālisahara, but he left everything to live with Caitanya Mahāprabhu in Jagannātha Purī. His relationship with Caitanya Mahāprabhu was friendly, like that of a cowherd boy. He was always friendly to Svarūpa Gosāñi, but he was staunchly devoted to the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He sometimes invited Caitanya Mahāprabhu to his house.</p>
<p>Bhagavān Ācārya was very liberal and simple. His father, Śatānanda Khān, was completely materialistic, and his younger brother, Gopāla Bhaṭṭācārya, was a staunch Māyāvādī philosopher who had studied very elaborately. When his brother came to Jagannātha Purī, Bhagavān Ācārya wanted to hear from him about Māyāvāda philosophy, but Svarūpa Dāmodara forbade him to do so, and there the matter stopped. Once a friend of Bhagavān Ācārya's from Bengal wanted to recite a drama that he had written that was against the principles of devotional service, and although Bhagavān Ācārya wanted to recite this drama before Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara, the Lord's secretary, did not allow him to do so. Later Svarūpa Dāmodara pointed out the drama's many mistakes and its disagreements with the conclusion of devotional service, and the author became aware of the faults in his writing and then surrendered to Svarūpa Dāmodara, begging his mercy. This is described in the Antya-līlā, Chapter Five, verses 91–158.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10137_33" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1388" link="CC Adi 10.137" link_text="CC Adi 10.137">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.137|CC Adi 10.137, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Within this world, Caitanya Mahāprabhu had three and a half very confidential devotees. The three were Svarūpa Gosāñi, Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Śikhi Māhiti, and Śikhi Māhiti's sister, Mādhavīdevī, being a woman, was considered the half. Thus it is known that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had three and a half confidential devotees.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi134_34" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1576" link="CC Adi 13.4" link_text="CC Adi 13.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.4|CC Adi 13.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All glories to Svarūpa Dāmodara and Murāri Gupta! All these brilliant moons have together dissipated the darkness of this material world.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1316_35" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1588" link="CC Adi 13.16" link_text="CC Adi 13.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.16|CC Adi 13.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">His later pastimes (the madhya-līlā and antya-līlā) were recorded in the form of notes by His secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, and thus kept within a book.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1342_36" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1614" link="CC Adi 13.42" link_text="CC Adi 13.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.42|CC Adi 13.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord used to read the books of Vidyāpati, Jayadeva and Caṇḍīdāsa, relishing their songs with His confidential associates like Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1342_37" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1614" link="CC Adi 13.42" link_text="CC Adi 13.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.42|CC Adi 13.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It has been suggested that Caṇḍīdāsa and Vidyāpati were great friends because the writings of both express the transcendental feelings of separation profusely. The feelings of ecstasy described by Caṇḍīdāsa and Vidyāpati were actually exhibited by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He relished all those feelings in the role of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and His appropriate associates for this purpose were Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. These intimate associates of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu helped the Lord very much in the pastimes in which He felt like Rādhārāṇī.</p>
<p>Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments in this connection that such feelings of separation as Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu enjoyed from the books of Vidyāpati, Caṇḍīdāsa and Jayadeva are especially reserved for persons like Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara, who were paramahaṁsas, men of the topmost perfection, because of their advanced spiritual consciousness. Such topics are not to be discussed by ordinary persons imitating the activities of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. For critical students of mundane poetry and literary men without God consciousness who are after bodily sense gratification, there is no need to read such a high standard of transcendental literature.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1346_38" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1618" link="CC Adi 13.46" link_text="CC Adi 13.46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.46|CC Adi 13.46, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotees like Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara and Murāri Gupta have recorded all the principal pastimes of Lord Caitanya in the form of notes, after deliberate consideration.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1347_39" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1619" link="CC Adi 13.47" link_text="CC Adi 13.47">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.47|CC Adi 13.47, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The notes kept by Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara and Murāri Gupta are the basis of this book. Following those notes, I write of all the pastimes of the Lord. The notes have been described elaborately by Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi13124_40" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1694" link="CC Adi 13.124" link_text="CC Adi 13.124">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.124|CC Adi 13.124, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Taking on my head as my own property the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Nityānanda Prabhu, Ācārya Advaitacandra, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Rūpa Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, I, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, have thus described the advent of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi13124_41" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1694" link="CC Adi 13.124" link_text="CC Adi 13.124">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.124|CC Adi 13.124, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Nityānanda, Advaita Prabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Rūpa Gosvāmī, Raghunātha dāsa and their followers are all accepted by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī. Anyone who follows in the footsteps of Kavirāja Gosvāmī also accepts the lotus feet of the above-mentioned lords as his personal property.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17276_42" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2211" link="CC Adi 17.276" link_text="CC Adi 17.276">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.276|CC Adi 17.276, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lusty materialists like the members of the sahajiyā-sampradāya hanker after women, even others' wives. But when they try to ascribe the responsibility for their lusty activities to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they become offenders to Svarūpa Dāmodara and Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17301_43" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2236" link="CC Adi 17.301" link_text="CC Adi 17.301">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.301|CC Adi 17.301, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Personal associates like Gadādhara, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Rāmānanda Rāya, and the six Gosvāmīs (headed by Rūpa Gosvāmī) are all situated in their respective transcendental humors. Thus the Lord submits to various positions in various transcendental mellows.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17336_44" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2270" link="CC Adi 17.336" link_text="CC Adi 17.336">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.335-336|CC Adi 17.336, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I wish to place the lotus feet of the Gosvāmīs on my head. Their names are Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī and Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī. Placing their lotus feet on my head, always hoping to serve them, I, Kṛṣṇadāsa, narrate Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, following in their footsteps.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya159_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="58" link="CC Madhya 1.59" link_text="CC Madhya 1.59">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.59|CC Madhya 1.59, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This verse appears to be the hankering between some ordinary boy and girl, but its actual deep meaning was known only to Svarūpa Dāmodara. By chance, one year Rūpa Gosvāmī was also present there.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya160_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="59" link="CC Madhya 1.60" link_text="CC Madhya 1.60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.60|CC Madhya 1.60, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Although the meaning of the verse was known only to Svarūpa Dāmodara, Rūpa Gosvāmī, after hearing it from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, immediately composed another verse that described the meaning of the original verse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya170_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="69" link="CC Madhya 1.70" link_text="CC Madhya 1.70">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.70|CC Madhya 1.70, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Saying this, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu bestowed various benedictions upon Rūpa Gosvāmī, and taking the verse, He later showed it to Svarūpa Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya171_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="70" link="CC Madhya 1.71" link_text="CC Madhya 1.71">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.71|CC Madhya 1.71, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Having shown the verse to Svarūpa Dāmodara with great wonder, Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked him how Rūpa Gosvāmī could understand the intentions of His mind.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya172_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="71" link="CC Madhya 1.72" link_text="CC Madhya 1.72">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.72|CC Madhya 1.72, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī replied to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "If Rūpa Gosvāmī can understand Your mind and intentions, he must have Your Lordship's special benediction."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1130_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="129" link="CC Madhya 1.130" link_text="CC Madhya 1.130">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.130|CC Madhya 1.130, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Eventually there was a meeting with Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, and the Lord became very greatly pleased. Then there was a meeting with Śikhi Māhiti and with Bhavānanda Rāya, the father of Rāmānanda Rāya.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1253_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="252" link="CC Madhya 1.253" link_text="CC Madhya 1.253">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.253|CC Madhya 1.253, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Jagadānanda, Bhagavān, Govinda, Kāśīśvara, Paramānanda Purī and Svarūpa Dāmodara were other devotees who also lived with the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1284_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="282" link="CC Madhya 1.284" link_text="CC Madhya 1.284">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.284|CC Madhya 1.284, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Later, Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī left home and took shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī. At that time, the Lord received him and placed him under the care of Svarūpa Dāmodara for spiritual enlightenment.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1284_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="282" link="CC Madhya 1.284" link_text="CC Madhya 1.284">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.284|CC Madhya 1.284, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In this regard, Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī writes in Vilāpa-kusumāñjali (5):</p>
:yo māṁ dustara-geha-nirjala-mahā-kūpād apāra-klamāt
:sadyaḥ sāndra-dayāmbudhiḥ prakṛtitaḥ svairīkṛpā-rajjubhiḥ
:uddhṛtyātma-saroja-nindi-caraṇa-prāntaṁ prapadya svayaṁ
:śrī-dāmodara-sāc-cakāra tam ahaṁ caitanya-candraṁ bhaje
<p>"Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who, by His unreserved mercy, kindly saved me from household life, which is exactly like a blind well without water, and placed me in the ocean of transcendental joy under the care of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2Summary_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="286" link="CC Madhya 2 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 2 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2 Summary|CC Madhya 2 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually this Caitanya-caritāmṛta was compiled by the author during very old age. Fearing he might not be able to finish the book, he has included a synopsis of the antya-līlā here in the Second Chapter. Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī has confirmed that the opinion of Svarūpa Dāmodara is authoritative in the matter of devotional service. Over and above this are the notes of Svarūpa Dāmodara, memorized by Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who also helped in the compilation of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. After the disappearance of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī went to Vṛndāvana. At that time the author, Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī, met Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, by whose mercy he also could memorize all the notes. In this way the author was able to complete this transcendental literature, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya239_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="325" link="CC Madhya 2.39" link_text="CC Madhya 2.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.39|CC Madhya 2.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu thus spoke in ecstasy, He saw two persons before Him. One was His secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara, and the other was Rāya Rāmānanda. Coming to His external consciousness, He saw them both present, and although He was still talking in the ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, He immediately began to question whether He was the same Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya241_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="327" link="CC Madhya 2.41" link_text="CC Madhya 2.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.41|CC Madhya 2.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Again He addressed Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāya Rāmānanda, speaking despondently: "Alas! My friends, you can now know the certainty within My heart, and after knowing My heart you should judge whether I am correct or not. You can speak of this properly." Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then began to chant another verse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya244_12" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="330" link="CC Madhya 2.44" link_text="CC Madhya 2.44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.44|CC Madhya 2.44, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus speaking, the son of Śrīmatī Śacīmātā recited another wonderful verse, and Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara heard this verse with rapt attention. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "I feel shameful to disclose the activities of My heart. Nonetheless, I shall be done with all formalities and speak from the heart. Please hear."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya250_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="336" link="CC Madhya 2.50" link_text="CC Madhya 2.50">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.50|CC Madhya 2.50, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way, Lord Caitanya used to revel in ecstasy day after day and exhibit these ecstasies before Svarūpa and Rāmānanda Rāya. Externally there appeared severe tribulation, as if He were suffering from poisonous effects, but internally He was experiencing bliss. This is characteristic of transcendental love of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya277_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="363" link="CC Madhya 2.77" link_text="CC Madhya 2.77">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.77|CC Madhya 2.77, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">He also passed His time reading the books and singing the songs of Caṇḍīdāsa and Vidyāpati, and listening to quotations from the Jagannātha-vallabha-nāṭaka, Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta and Gīta-govinda. Thus in the association of Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāya Rāmānanda, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed His days and nights chanting and hearing with great pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya278_15" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="364" link="CC Madhya 2.78" link_text="CC Madhya 2.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.78|CC Madhya 2.78, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Among His associates, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu enjoyed paternal loving affection from Paramānanda Purī, friendly affection with Rāmānanda Rāya, unalloyed service from Govinda and others, and humors of conjugal love with Gadādhara, Jagadānanda and Svarūpa Dāmodara. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu enjoyed all these four mellows, and thus He remained obliged to His devotees.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya278_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="364" link="CC Madhya 2.78" link_text="CC Madhya 2.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.78|CC Madhya 2.78, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the presence of His most confidential devotees like Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Jagadānanda and Svarūpa Dāmodara, Caitanya Mahāprabhu enjoyed the ecstatic conditions of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in Her conjugal relationship with Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya284_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="370" link="CC Madhya 2.84" link_text="CC Madhya 2.84">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.84|CC Madhya 2.84, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are the topmost of jewels. They have been kept in the storehouse of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, who has explained them to Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who has repeated them to me. Whatever little I have heard from Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī I have described in this book, which is presented to all devotees.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya284_18" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="370" link="CC Madhya 2.84" link_text="CC Madhya 2.84">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.84|CC Madhya 2.84, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu were noted by His personal secretary Svarūpa Dāmodara and repeated to Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who memorized them. Whatever Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī heard is recorded in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta. This is called the paramparā system, from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to Svarūpa Dāmodara to Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī to Kavirāja Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya293_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="379" link="CC Madhya 2.93" link_text="CC Madhya 2.93">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.93|CC Madhya 2.93, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I worship herewith the lotus feet of all kinds of devotees, both advanced and neophyte. I request all of them to be satisfied with me. I am faultless because I have written herein whatever I have understood from Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rūpa and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmīs. I have neither added to nor subtracted from their version.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya293_20" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="379" link="CC Madhya 2.93" link_text="CC Madhya 2.93">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.93|CC Madhya 2.93, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, there are three kinds of devotees, known as bhajana-vijña (experts in devotional service), bhajana-śīla (devotees engaged in devotional service), and kṛṣṇa-nāme dīkṣita kṛṣṇa-nāma-kārī (initiated devotees engaged in chanting). The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta begs the mercy of all these devotees and asks them to be pleased with him. He says, "Let the neophyte devotees—the devotees who are very expert in arguing though they have no sense of advanced devotional service, who think themselves very advanced because they imitate some smārta-brāhmaṇa—let such devotees not be displeased with me, thinking that I have committed errors in this regard. I beg their pardon with great humility, but I am submitting that I personally have no desire to add or subtract anything. I have only written what I have heard in the disciplic succession because I am dedicated to the lotus feet of previous ācāryas like Svarūpa Dāmodara, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī and Rūpa Gosvāmī. I have only written what I have learned from them."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya294_21" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="380" link="CC Madhya 2.94" link_text="CC Madhya 2.94">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.94|CC Madhya 2.94, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the paramparā system, I wish to take the dust from the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Nityānanda Prabhu, Advaita Prabhu, and all the associates of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu like Svarūpa Dāmodara, Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī. I wish to take the dust of their lotus feet upon my head. In this way I wish to be blessed with their mercy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya6103_22" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1073" link="CC Madhya 6.103" link_text="CC Madhya 6.103">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.103|CC Madhya 6.103, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"In this Age of Kali, those who are intelligent perform the congregational chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appears in this age always describing the glories of Kṛṣṇa. That incarnation is yellowish in hue and is always associated with His plenary expansions (such as Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu) and personal expansions (such as Gadādhara), as well as His devotees and associates (such as Svarūpa Dāmodara)."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8Summary_23" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1407" link="CC Madhya 8 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 8 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8 Summary|CC Madhya 8 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These descriptions of the meetings between Rāmānanda Rāya and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are taken from the notebook of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8282_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1685" link="CC Madhya 8.282" link_text="CC Madhya 8.282">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.282|CC Madhya 8.282, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, being a combination of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā, is nondifferent from Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa combined. This is explained by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī:</p>
:rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād
:ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau
:caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ
:rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam
:([[Vanisource:CC Adi 1.5|CC Adi 1.5]])
<p>Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa is one. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa is Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa's pleasure potency combined. When Kṛṣṇa exhibits His pleasure potency, He appears to be two—Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one. This oneness may be perceived by advanced devotees through the grace of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. This was the case with Rāmānanda Rāya. One may aspire to attain such a position, but one should not try to imitate the mahā-bhāgavata.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8312_25" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1715" link="CC Madhya 8.312" link_text="CC Madhya 8.312">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.312|CC Madhya 8.312, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">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.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8312_26" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1715" link="CC Madhya 8.312" link_text="CC Madhya 8.312">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.312|CC Madhya 8.312, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">At the end of every chapter, the author admits the value of the disciplic succession. He never claims to have written this transcendental literature by carrying out research work. He simply admits his indebtedness to the notes taken by Svarūpa Dāmodara, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī and other authoritative persons. This is the way of writing transcendental literatures, which are never meant for so-called scholars and research workers.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10Summary_27" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2079" link="CC Madhya 10 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 10 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10 Summary|CC Madhya 10 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Puruṣottama Bhaṭṭācārya, a resident of Navadvīpa, was educated at Vārāṇasī. He accepted the renounced order from Caitanyānanda, but he took the name of Svarūpa. Thus he arrived at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10102_28" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2181" link="CC Madhya 10.102" link_text="CC Madhya 10.102">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.102|CC Madhya 10.102, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara also arrived the next day. He was a very intimate friend of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's, and he was an ocean of transcendental mellows.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10102_29" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2181" link="CC Madhya 10.102" link_text="CC Madhya 10.102">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.102|CC Madhya 10.102, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Svarūpa" is one of the names of a brahmacārī in Śaṅkarācārya's disciplic succession. In the Vedic discipline there are ten names for sannyāsīs, and it is customary for a brahmacārī assisting a sannyāsī of the designation Tīrtha or Āśrama to receive the title Svarūpa. Dāmodara Svarūpa was formerly a resident of Navadvīpa, and his name was Puruṣottama Ācārya. When he went to Vārāṇasī, he took sannyāsa from a sannyāsī designated Tīrtha. Although he received the title Svarūpa in his brahmacārī stage, he did not change his name when he took sannyāsa. Actually as a sannyāsī he should have been called Tīrtha, but he chose to retain his original brahmacārī title of Svarūpa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10103_30" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2182" link="CC Madhya 10.103" link_text="CC Madhya 10.103">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.103|CC Madhya 10.103, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Svarūpa Dāmodara was residing at Navadvīpa under the shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, his name was Puruṣottama Ācārya.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10106_31" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2185" link="CC Madhya 10.106" link_text="CC Madhya 10.106">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.106|CC Madhya 10.106, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara was a great renunciant as well as a great learned scholar. With heart and soul he took shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10108_32" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2187" link="CC Madhya 10.108" link_text="CC Madhya 10.108">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.108|CC Madhya 10.108, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are regulative principles governing the renounced order. One has to perform eight kinds of śrāddha. One must offer oblations to one's forefathers and perform the sacrifice of virajā-homa. Then one must cut off the tuft of hair called a śikhā and also give up the sacred thread. These are preliminary processes in the acceptance of sannyāsa, and Svarūpa Dāmodara accepted all these. However, Puruṣottama Ācārya did not accept the saffron color, a sannyāsī name or a daṇḍa, and for this reason he retained his brahmacārī name. Actually Puruṣottama Ācārya did not accept the sannyāsa order formally, but he renounced worldly life. He did not want to be disturbed by the formality of the sannyāsa order. He simply wanted to worship Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa without disturbance; therefore with heart and soul he took up the renounced order but not the formalities accompanying it.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10109_33" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2188" link="CC Madhya 10.109" link_text="CC Madhya 10.109">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.109|CC Madhya 10.109, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After taking permission from his sannyāsa-guru, Svarūpa Dāmodara went to Nīlācala and accepted the shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Then all day and night, in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa, he enjoyed transcendental mellows in the loving service of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10110_34" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2189" link="CC Madhya 10.110" link_text="CC Madhya 10.110">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.110|CC Madhya 10.110, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara was the limit of all learned scholarship, but he did not exchange words with anyone. He simply remained in a solitary place, and no one could understand where he was.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10111_35" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2190" link="CC Madhya 10.111" link_text="CC Madhya 10.111">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.111|CC Madhya 10.111, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara was the personification of ecstatic love, fully cognizant of the transcendental mellows in relationship with Kṛṣṇa. He directly represented Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as His second expansion.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10112_36" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2191" link="CC Madhya 10.112" link_text="CC Madhya 10.112">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.112|CC Madhya 10.112, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">If someone wrote a book or composed verses and songs and wanted to recite them before Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara would first examine them and then correctly present them. Only then would Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu agree to listen.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10114_37" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2193" link="CC Madhya 10.114" link_text="CC Madhya 10.114">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.114|CC Madhya 10.114, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">It was the practice of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī to examine all literatures to find out whether their conclusions were correct. Only then would he allow them to be heard by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10114_38" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2193" link="CC Madhya 10.114" link_text="CC Madhya 10.114">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.114|CC Madhya 10.114, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who adopt the conclusions of rasābhāsa and bhakti-siddhānta-viruddha are never accepted as devotees of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī never approved such followers as Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas, nor did he allow them even to meet the Supreme Lord, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10115_39" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2194" link="CC Madhya 10.115" link_text="CC Madhya 10.115">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.115|CC Madhya 10.115, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara used to read the poems of Vidyāpati and Caṇḍīdāsa and Jayadeva Gosvāmī’s Śrī Gīta-govinda. He used to make Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu very happy by singing these songs.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10116_40" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2195" link="CC Madhya 10.116" link_text="CC Madhya 10.116">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.116|CC Madhya 10.116, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara was as expert a musician as the Gandharvas, and in scriptural discussion he was just like Bṛhaspati, the priest of the heavenly gods. Therefore it is to be concluded that there was no great personality quite like Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10116_41" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2195" link="CC Madhya 10.116" link_text="CC Madhya 10.116">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.116|CC Madhya 10.116, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was very expert in music as well as the Vedic scriptures. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to call him Dāmodara because of his expert singing and musical skills. The name Dāmodara was given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and added to the name given by his sannyāsa-guru. He was therefore known as Svarūpa Dāmodara, or Dāmodara Svarūpa. He compiled a book of music named Saṅgīta-dāmodara.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10117_42" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2196" link="CC Madhya 10.117" link_text="CC Madhya 10.117">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.117|CC Madhya 10.117, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara was very dear to Advaita Ācārya and Nityānanda Prabhu, and he was the life and soul of all the devotees, headed by Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10118_43" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2197" link="CC Madhya 10.118" link_text="CC Madhya 10.118">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.118|CC Madhya 10.118, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Svarūpa Dāmodara came to Jagannātha Purī, he fell flat before the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, offering Him obeisances and reciting a verse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10120_44" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2199" link="CC Madhya 10.120" link_text="CC Madhya 10.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.120|CC Madhya 10.120, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu raised Svarūpa Dāmodara to his feet and embraced him. They both became ecstatic in love and fell unconscious.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10123_45" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2202" link="CC Madhya 10.123" link_text="CC Madhya 10.123">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.123|CC Madhya 10.123, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa said, “My dear Lord, please excuse my offense. I gave up Your company to go elsewhere, and that was my great mistake.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10126_46" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2205" link="CC Madhya 10.126" link_text="CC Madhya 10.126">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.126|CC Madhya 10.126, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara then worshiped the lotus feet of Nityānanda Prabhu, and Nityānanda Prabhu in turn embraced him in the ecstasy of love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10127_47" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2206" link="CC Madhya 10.127" link_text="CC Madhya 10.127">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.127|CC Madhya 10.127, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After worshiping Nityānanda Prabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara met Jagadānanda, Mukunda, Śaṅkara and Sārvabhauma, as was befitting.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10128_48" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2207" link="CC Madhya 10.128" link_text="CC Madhya 10.128">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.128|CC Madhya 10.128, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara also offered his worshipful prayers at the lotus feet of Paramānanda Purī, who, in return, embraced him in ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10129_49" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2208" link="CC Madhya 10.129" link_text="CC Madhya 10.129">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.129|CC Madhya 10.129, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then gave Svarūpa Dāmodara residence in a solitary place and ordered a servant to serve him with a supply of water and other necessities.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11Summary_50" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2270" link="CC Madhya 11 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 11 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11 Summary|CC Madhya 11 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">While Advaita Ācārya and the other devotees were coming to Jagannātha Purī, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Govinda, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's two personal assistants, went to receive all the devotees with garlands. From the roof of his palace, King Pratāparudra could see all the devotees arriving. Gopīnātha Ācārya stood on the roof with the King, and, following Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya's instructions, identified each and every devotee. The King discussed the devotees with Gopīnātha Ācārya, and he mentioned that the devotees were accepting prasādam without observing the regulative principles governing pilgrimages. They accepted prasādam without having shaved, and they neglected to fast in a holy place. After Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya had explained to the King why the devotees had apparently violated the scriptural injunctions for visiting a place of pilgrimage, the King arranged residential quarters for all the devotees and saw to their prasādam.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1133_51" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2302" link="CC Madhya 11.33" link_text="CC Madhya 11.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.33|CC Madhya 11.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Paramānanda Purī, Brahmānanda Bhāratī Gosāñi, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosāñi, Lord Nityānanda, Jagadānanda, Mukunda and others were present before the Lord at that time.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1134_52" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2303" link="CC Madhya 11.34" link_text="CC Madhya 11.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.34|CC Madhya 11.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The four spiritual masters referred to in this verse are Paramānanda Purī, Brahmānanda Bhāratī, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Lord Nityānanda.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1174_53" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2343" link="CC Madhya 11.74" link_text="CC Madhya 11.74">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.74|CC Madhya 11.74, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara and Govinda, taking the flower garlands and prasādam of Lord Jagannātha, proceeded to where all the Vaiṣṇavas were standing.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1176_54" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2345" link="CC Madhya 11.76" link_text="CC Madhya 11.76">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.76|CC Madhya 11.76, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya replied, “Here is Svarūpa Dāmodara, who is practically the second expansion of the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1178_55" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2347" link="CC Madhya 11.78" link_text="CC Madhya 11.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.78|CC Madhya 11.78, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At the beginning, Svarūpa Dāmodara came forward and garlanded Advaita Ācārya. Govinda next came and offered a second garland to Advaita Ācārya.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1179_56" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2348" link="CC Madhya 11.79" link_text="CC Madhya 11.79">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.79|CC Madhya 11.79, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Govinda offered his obeisances by falling down flat before Advaita Ācārya, Advaita Ācārya asked Svarūpa Dāmodara about his identity, for He did not know Govinda at that time.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1180_57" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2349" link="CC Madhya 11.80" link_text="CC Madhya 11.80">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.80|CC Madhya 11.80, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara informed Him, “Govinda was the servant of Īśvara Purī. He is very highly qualified.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1182_58" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2351" link="CC Madhya 11.82" link_text="CC Madhya 11.82">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.82|CC Madhya 11.82, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The King inquired, "To whom did Svarūpa Dāmodara and Govinda offer the two garlands? His bodily effulgence is so great that He must be a very great devotee. Please let me know who He is."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11142_59" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2409" link="CC Madhya 11.142" link_text="CC Madhya 11.142">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.142|CC Madhya 11.142, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"The books are being kept with Svarūpa Dāmodara, and you can get them copied." Hearing this, Vāsudeva became very glad.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11146_60" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2413" link="CC Madhya 11.146" link_text="CC Madhya 11.146">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.146|CC Madhya 11.146, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Here the Lord is addressing Dāmodara Paṇḍita, who is different from Svarūpa Dāmodara. Dāmodara Paṇḍita is the elder brother of Śaṅkara.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11202_61" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2468" link="CC Madhya 11.202" link_text="CC Madhya 11.202">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.202|CC Madhya 11.202, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī then informed Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, “Unless You sit and take prasādam, no one will accept it.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11208_62" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2474" link="CC Madhya 11.208" link_text="CC Madhya 11.208">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.208|CC Madhya 11.208, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Dāmodara Paṇḍita and Jagadānanda all began to distribute prasādam to the devotees with great pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12Summary_63" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2510" link="CC Madhya 12 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 12 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12 Summary|CC Madhya 12 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">After all the Vaiṣṇavas finished their luncheon, Svarūpa Dāmodara and others took their prasādam within the room. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took great pleasure when He saw the Jagannātha Deity after the period of the Deity's retirement. At that time Lord Caitanya was accompanied by all the devotees, and all of them were very pleased.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12109_64" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2619" link="CC Madhya 12.109" link_text="CC Madhya 12.109">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.109|CC Madhya 12.109, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">With the exception of Nityānanda Prabhu, Advaita Ācārya, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Brahmānanda Bhāratī and Paramānanda Purī, everyone was engaged in filling the waterpots and bringing them there.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12125_65" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2635" link="CC Madhya 12.125" link_text="CC Madhya 12.125">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.125|CC Madhya 12.125, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord then called for Svarūpa Dāmodara and told him, “Just see the behavior of your Bengali Vaiṣṇava!</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12127_66" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2637" link="CC Madhya 12.127" link_text="CC Madhya 12.127">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.127|CC Madhya 12.127, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is significant that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu told Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī that the Bengali Vaiṣṇava was "your Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava." This means that all Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas who are followers of the Caitanya cult are subordinate to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. The paramparā system is very strictly observed by Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's personal secretary was Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. The next group of devotees was the six Gosvāmīs, then Kavirāja Gosvāmī. It is necessary to observe the paramparā system of the Caitanya cult.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12128_67" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2638" link="CC Madhya 12.128" link_text="CC Madhya 12.128">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.128|CC Madhya 12.128, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At this point Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī caught the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava by the neck and, giving him a little push, ejected him from the Guṇḍicā Purī temple and made him stay outside.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12129_68" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2639" link="CC Madhya 12.129" link_text="CC Madhya 12.129">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.129|CC Madhya 12.129, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī returned within the temple, he requested Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to excuse that innocent person.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12141_69" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2651" link="CC Madhya 12.141" link_text="CC Madhya 12.141">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.141|CC Madhya 12.141, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu always liked the loud chanting of Svarūpa Dāmodara. Therefore when Svarūpa Dāmodara sang, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced and jumped high in jubilation.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12163164_70" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2672" link="CC Madhya 12.163-164" link_text="CC Madhya 12.163-164">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.163-164|CC Madhya 12.163-164, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Jagadānanda, Dāmodara Paṇḍita, Kāśīśvara, Gopīnātha, Vāṇīnātha and Śaṅkara distributed prasādam, and the devotees chanted the holy names at intervals.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12168_71" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2676" link="CC Madhya 12.168" link_text="CC Madhya 12.168">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.168|CC Madhya 12.168, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Since Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is omniscient, He knew what types of preparations each person liked. He therefore had Svarūpa Dāmodara deliver these preparations to each devotee to his full satisfaction.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12173_72" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2681" link="CC Madhya 12.173" link_text="CC Madhya 12.173">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.173|CC Madhya 12.173, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī then brought some excellent sweetmeats and, standing before the Lord, offered them to Him.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12174_73" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2682" link="CC Madhya 12.174" link_text="CC Madhya 12.174">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.174|CC Madhya 12.174, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī then said, "Just take a little of this mahā-prasādam, and see how it is that Lord Jagannātha has accepted it."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12175_74" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2683" link="CC Madhya 12.175" link_text="CC Madhya 12.175">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.175|CC Madhya 12.175, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon saying this, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī placed some food before the Lord, and the Lord, out of affection, ate it.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12176_75" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2684" link="CC Madhya 12.176" link_text="CC Madhya 12.176">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.176|CC Madhya 12.176, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara and Jagadānanda again and again offered the Lord some food. Thus they behaved affectionately with the Lord. This was very, very uncommon.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12177_76" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2685" link="CC Madhya 12.177" link_text="CC Madhya 12.177">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.177|CC Madhya 12.177, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord made Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya sit on His left side, and when Sārvabhauma saw the behavior of Svarūpa Dāmodara and Jagadānanda, he smiled.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12200_77" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2708" link="CC Madhya 12.200" link_text="CC Madhya 12.200">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.200|CC Madhya 12.200, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The seven persons headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara who were engaged in distributing prasādam to others then took their meals within the room.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12208_78" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2716" link="CC Madhya 12.208" link_text="CC Madhya 12.208">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.208|CC Madhya 12.208, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went toward the temple, Paramānanda Purī and Brahmānanda Bhāratī walked in front of Him, and at His two sides walked Svarūpa Dāmodara and Advaita Ācārya.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1332_79" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2762" link="CC Madhya 13.32" link_text="CC Madhya 13.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.32|CC Madhya 13.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord also gave garlands and sandalwood pulp to the performers of saṅkīrtana. The two chief performers were Svarūpa Dāmodara and Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1336_80" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2766" link="CC Madhya 13.36" link_text="CC Madhya 13.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.36|CC Madhya 13.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara was chosen as the leader of the first party and was given five assistants to respond to his chanting.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1337_81" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2767" link="CC Madhya 13.37" link_text="CC Madhya 13.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.37|CC Madhya 13.37, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The five who responded to the singing of Svarūpa Dāmodara were Dāmodara Paṇḍita, Nārāyaṇa, Govinda Datta, Rāghava Paṇḍita and Śrī Govindānanda.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1338_82" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2768" link="CC Madhya 13.38" link_text="CC Madhya 13.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.38|CC Madhya 13.38, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the first group, Dāmodara Svarūpa was appointed chief singer, and the responding singers were Dāmodara Paṇḍita, Nārāyaṇa, Govinda Datta, Rāghava Paṇḍita and Govindānanda.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1374_83" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2804" link="CC Madhya 13.74" link_text="CC Madhya 13.74">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.74|CC Madhya 13.74, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu desired to jump high while dancing, He placed these nine people in the charge of Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1375_84" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2805" link="CC Madhya 13.75" link_text="CC Madhya 13.75">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.75|CC Madhya 13.75, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">These devotees (Svarūpa Dāmodara and the devotees in his charge) sang along with the Lord, and they also ran beside Him. All the other groups of men also sang.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13112_85" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2842" link="CC Madhya 13.112" link_text="CC Madhya 13.112">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.112|CC Madhya 13.112, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After abandoning the dancing, the Lord ordered Svarūpa Dāmodara to sing. Understanding His mind, Svarūpa Dāmodara began to sing as follows.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13114_86" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2844" link="CC Madhya 13.114" link_text="CC Madhya 13.114">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.114|CC Madhya 13.114, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When this refrain was loudly sung by Svarūpa Dāmodara, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again began rhythmically dancing in transcendental bliss.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13122_87" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2852" link="CC Madhya 13.122" link_text="CC Madhya 13.122">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.122|CC Madhya 13.122, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This verse was recited by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again and again. But for Svarūpa Dāmodara, no one could understand its meaning.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13125_88" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2855" link="CC Madhya 13.125" link_text="CC Madhya 13.125">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.125|CC Madhya 13.125, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Similarly, after seeing Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu awoke with the ecstasy of the gopīs. Being absorbed in this ecstasy, He asked Svarūpa Dāmodara to sing the refrain.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13134_89" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2864" link="CC Madhya 13.134" link_text="CC Madhya 13.134">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.134|CC Madhya 13.134, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The meaning of those verses was known to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, but he did not reveal it. However, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī has broadcast the meaning.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13135_90" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2865" link="CC Madhya 13.135" link_text="CC Madhya 13.135">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.135|CC Madhya 13.135, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While dancing, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu began to recite the following verse, which He tasted in the association of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13161_91" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2891" link="CC Madhya 13.161" link_text="CC Madhya 13.161">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.161|CC Madhya 13.161, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would sit in His room with Svarūpa Dāmodara and taste the topics of these verses day and night.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13163_92" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2893" link="CC Madhya 13.163" link_text="CC Madhya 13.163">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.163|CC Madhya 13.163, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">No one can describe the good fortune of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, for he is always absorbed in the service of the Lord with his body, mind and words.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13164_93" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2894" link="CC Madhya 13.164" link_text="CC Madhya 13.164">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.164|CC Madhya 13.164, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The senses of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu were identical with the senses of Svarūpa. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to become fully absorbed in tasting the singing of Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13166_94" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2896" link="CC Madhya 13.166" link_text="CC Madhya 13.166">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.166|CC Madhya 13.166, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Fearing that the Lord would injure His finger by writing in this way, Svarūpa Dāmodara checked Him with his own hand.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya13167_95" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2897" link="CC Madhya 13.167" link_text="CC Madhya 13.167">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.167|CC Madhya 13.167, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara used to sing exactly according to the ecstatic emotion of the Lord. Whenever a particular mellow was being tasted by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara would personify it by singing.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14Summary_96" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2940" link="CC Madhya 14 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 14 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14 Summary|CC Madhya 14 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">For nine continuous days during Ratha-yātrā, the Lord remained at Sundarācala, and on the fifth day He and Svarūpa Dāmodara observed the pastimes of Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune. During that time, there was much talk about the pastimes of the gopīs.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya1440_97" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2980" link="CC Madhya 14.40" link_text="CC Madhya 14.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.40|CC Madhya 14.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">But the devotees would not accept the prasādam until Caitanya Mahāprabhu took it. Svarūpa Gosvāmī informed the Lord of this.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya1441_98" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2981" link="CC Madhya 14.41" link_text="CC Madhya 14.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.41|CC Madhya 14.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said, "My Lord, please sit down. No one will eat until You do."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya1480_99" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3020" link="CC Madhya 14.80" link_text="CC Madhya 14.80">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.80|CC Madhya 14.80, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara and Vidyānidhi also threw water upon each other, and Murāri Gupta and Vāsudeva Datta also sported in that way.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14101_100" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3041" link="CC Madhya 14.101" link_text="CC Madhya 14.101">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.101|CC Madhya 14.101, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then devotees like Svarūpa Dāmodara and other kīrtana performers began to sing along with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Being inundated with ecstatic love, they lost all consideration of time and circumstance.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14116_101" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3056" link="CC Madhya 14.116" link_text="CC Madhya 14.116">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.116|CC Madhya 14.116, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After taking His seat, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to hear about a particular mellow of devotional service; therefore, mildly smiling, He began to question Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14122_102" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3061" link="CC Madhya 14.122" link_text="CC Madhya 14.122">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.122|CC Madhya 14.122, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara replied, “My dear Lord, please hear the reason for this. Lakṣmīdevī, the goddess of fortune, cannot be admitted to the pastimes of Vṛndāvana.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14127_103" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3066" link="CC Madhya 14.127" link_text="CC Madhya 14.127">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.127|CC Madhya 14.127, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara replied, "It is the nature of a girl afflicted by love to become immediately angry upon finding any neglect on the part of her lover."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14128_104" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3067" link="CC Madhya 14.128" link_text="CC Madhya 14.128">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.128|CC Madhya 14.128, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While Svarūpa Dāmodara and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu were talking, the procession of the goddess of fortune came by. She was riding upon a golden palanquin carried by four men and bedecked with a variety of jewels.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14136_105" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3075" link="CC Madhya 14.136" link_text="CC Madhya 14.136">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.136|CC Madhya 14.136, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said, “There is no egoistic pride like this within the three worlds. At least I have never seen it or heard of it.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14139_106" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3078" link="CC Madhya 14.139" link_text="CC Madhya 14.139">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.139|CC Madhya 14.139, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">After seeing the impudence of the goddess of fortune, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī wanted to inform Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu about the superexcellence of the gopīs' loving affairs. He therefore said, "My Lord, I have never experienced anything like the behavior of the goddess of fortune. We sometimes see a beloved wife becoming proud of her position and then frustrated due to some neglect. She then gives up caring for her appearance, accepts dirty clothes and morosely sits on the ground and draws lines with her nails. We have heard of such egoistic pride in Satyabhāmā and the gopīs of Vṛndāvana, but what we see in the goddess of fortune here at Jagannātha Purī is completely different. She becomes very angry with her husband and attacks Him with her great opulence."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14140_107" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3079" link="CC Madhya 14.140" link_text="CC Madhya 14.140">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.140|CC Madhya 14.140, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "Please tell me of the varieties of egoistic pride manifested in Vṛndāvana."</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara replied, “The pride of the gopīs is like a river flowing with hundreds of tributaries.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14154_108" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3093" link="CC Madhya 14.154" link_text="CC Madhya 14.154">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.154|CC Madhya 14.154, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu felt unlimited happiness upon hearing these descriptions, and He again and again requested Svarūpa Dāmodara to continue speaking.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14158_109" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3097" link="CC Madhya 14.158" link_text="CC Madhya 14.158">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.158|CC Madhya 14.158, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is on the mundane platform must first purify himself by following the regulative principles. Only then can he try to understand Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī are here talking about the relationship between Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs; therefore the subject matter is neither mundane nor erotic. Being a sannyāsī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very strict in His dealings with women. Unless the gopīs were on the spiritual platform, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would have never even mentioned them to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. Therefore these descriptions do not at all pertain to material activity.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14164_110" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3103" link="CC Madhya 14.164" link_text="CC Madhya 14.164">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.164|CC Madhya 14.164, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard these talks, His ocean of transcendental bliss increased. He therefore told Svarūpa Dāmodara, "Go on speaking, go on speaking." And thus Svarūpa Dāmodara continued.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14182_111" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3121" link="CC Madhya 14.182" link_text="CC Madhya 14.182">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.182|CC Madhya 14.182, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon hearing this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became very happy, and being absorbed in this happiness, He embraced Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14183_112" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3122" link="CC Madhya 14.183" link_text="CC Madhya 14.183">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.183|CC Madhya 14.183, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then asked Svarūpa Dāmodara, "Please speak of the ecstatic ornaments decorating the body of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, by which She enchants the mind of Śrī Govinda."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14184_113" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3123" link="CC Madhya 14.184" link_text="CC Madhya 14.184">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.184|CC Madhya 14.184, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Being thus requested, Svarūpa Dāmodara began to speak. All the devotees of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu were very happy to hear him.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14188_114" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3127" link="CC Madhya 14.188" link_text="CC Madhya 14.188">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.188|CC Madhya 14.188, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said, “Timidity, jubilation, ambition, respect, fear and the characteristics of the left-wing gopīs are all ecstatic symptoms that combine to agitate Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14203_115" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3142" link="CC Madhya 14.203" link_text="CC Madhya 14.203">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.203|CC Madhya 14.203, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At this time, Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura smiled and told Svarūpa Dāmodara, “My dear sir, please hear! Just see how opulent my goddess of fortune is!</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14214_116" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3153" link="CC Madhya 14.214" link_text="CC Madhya 14.214">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.214|CC Madhya 14.214, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura continued to address Svarūpa Dāmodara: "Your gopīs are engaged in boiling milk and churning yogurt, but my mistress, the goddess of fortune, sits on a throne made of jewels and gems."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14217_117" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3156" link="CC Madhya 14.217" link_text="CC Madhya 14.217">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.217|CC Madhya 14.217, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Svarūpa Dāmodara is a pure devotee of Vṛndāvana. He does not even know what opulence is, for he is simply absorbed in pure devotional service."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14218_118" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3157" link="CC Madhya 14.218" link_text="CC Madhya 14.218">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.218|CC Madhya 14.218, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara then retorted, “My dear Śrīvāsa, please hear me with attention. You have forgotten the transcendental opulence of Vṛndāvana.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14231_119" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3170" link="CC Madhya 14.231" link_text="CC Madhya 14.231">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.231|CC Madhya 14.231, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was dancing in ecstatic love and Svarūpa Dāmodara was singing, the Lord said, "Go on singing! Go on singing!" The Lord then extended His own ears.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya14238_120" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3177" link="CC Madhya 14.238" link_text="CC Madhya 14.238">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.238|CC Madhya 14.238, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara then informed the Lord that all the devotees were fatigued. Seeing this situation, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to His external senses.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya15184185_121" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3379" link="CC Madhya 15.184-185" link_text="CC Madhya 15.184-185">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.184-185|CC Madhya 15.184-185, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu remained at Jagannātha Purī, Nīlācala, with Paramānanda Purī, Jagadānanda, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Dāmodara Paṇḍita, Govinda and Kāśīśvara. It was Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's daily practice to see Lord Jagannātha in the morning.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15193_122" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3387" link="CC Madhya 15.193" link_text="CC Madhya 15.193">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.193|CC Madhya 15.193, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The ten sannyāsīs living with the Lord were (1) Paramānanda Purī, (2) Svarūpa Dāmodara, (3) Brahmānanda Purī, (4) Brahmānanda Bhāratī, (5) Viṣṇu Purī, (6) Keśava Purī, (7) Kṛṣṇānanda Purī, (8) Nṛsiṁha Tīrtha, (9) Sukhānanda Purī and (10) Satyānanda Bhāratī.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCMadhya15195_123" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3389" link="CC Madhya 15.195" link_text="CC Madhya 15.195">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.195|CC Madhya 15.195, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya said, “Dāmodara Svarūpa is my intimate friend. He will come sometimes with You and sometimes alone.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15196_124" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3390" link="CC Madhya 15.196" link_text="CC Madhya 15.196">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.196|CC Madhya 15.196, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">During the entire month, consisting of thirty days, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would visit Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya for five days, Paramānanda Purī Gosvāmī would visit for five days, Svarūpa Dāmodara for four days, and the eight other sannyāsīs for two days each. In this way the thirty days of the month would be filled.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15198_125" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3392" link="CC Madhya 15.198" link_text="CC Madhya 15.198">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.198|CC Madhya 15.198, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Sometimes You will come alone to my place, and sometimes You will be accompanied by Svarūpa Dāmodara."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1641_126" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3536" link="CC Madhya 16.41" link_text="CC Madhya 16.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.41|CC Madhya 16.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then, for the second time, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu sent garlands through Svarūpa Dāmodara and other personal associates. Thus they went forward, sent by the son of mother Śacī.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1642_127" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3537" link="CC Madhya 16.42" link_text="CC Madhya 16.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.42|CC Madhya 16.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the devotees from Bengal reached Lake Narendra, Svarūpa Dāmodara and the others met them and offered them the garlands given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1677_128" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3572" link="CC Madhya 16.77" link_text="CC Madhya 16.77">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.77|CC Madhya 16.77, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi had a friendly, intimate relationship, and as far as discussing topics about Kṛṣṇa, they were situated on the same platform.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya16127129_129" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3621" link="CC Madhya 16.127-129" link_text="CC Madhya 16.127-129">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.127-129|CC Madhya 16.127-129, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Paramānanda Purī Gosvāmī, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Jagadānanda, Mukunda, Govinda, Kāśīśvara, Haridāsa Ṭhākura, Vakreśvara Paṇḍita, Gopīnātha Ācārya, Dāmodara Paṇḍita, Rāmāi, Nandāi and many other devotees accompanied the Lord. I have mentioned only the chief devotees. No one can describe the total number.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya16281_130" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3768" link="CC Madhya 16.281" link_text="CC Madhya 16.281">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.281|CC Madhya 16.281, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes materialists, forgetting the pastimes of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma, go to Vṛndāvana, accept the land's spiritual facilities and engage in material activity. This is against the teachings of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The prākṛta-sahajiyās proclaim themselves vraja-vāsīs or dhāma-vāsīs, but they are mainly engaged in sense gratification. Thus they become more and more implicated in the materialistic way of life. Those who are pure devotees in Kṛṣṇa consciousness condemn their activities. The eternal vraja-vāsīs like Svarūpa Dāmodara did not even come to Vṛndāvana-dhāma. Śrī Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi, Śrī Haridāsa Ṭhākura, Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita, Śivānanda Sena, Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya, Śrī Śikhi Māhiti, Śrī Mādhavīdevī and Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita Gosvāmī never visited Vṛndāvana-dhāma. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura points out that we have no authorized documents stating that these exalted personalities visited Vṛndāvana. Nonetheless, we find many nondevotees, Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, prākṛta-sahajiyās, fruitive workers, mental speculators and many others with material motives going to Vṛndāvana to live. Many of these people go there to solve their economic problems by becoming beggars. Although anyone living in Vṛndāvana somehow or other is benefited, the real Vṛndāvana is appreciated only by a pure devotee.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya17Summary_131" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3778" link="CC Madhya 17 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 17 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17 Summary|CC Madhya 17 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">After attending the Ratha-yātrā ceremony of Śrī Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu decided to start for Vṛndāvana. Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī selected a brāhmaṇa named Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya to personally assist Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Early in the morning before sunrise, the Lord started for the town of Kaṭaka. North of Kaṭaka, He penetrated a dense forest and came upon many tigers and elephants, whom He engaged in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya173_132" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3781" link="CC Madhya 17.3" link_text="CC Madhya 17.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.3|CC Madhya 17.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When autumn arrived, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu decided to go to Vṛndāvana. In a solitary place, He consulted with Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya174_133" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3782" link="CC Madhya 17.4" link_text="CC Madhya 17.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.4|CC Madhya 17.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord requested Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī to help Him go to Vṛndāvana.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya178_134" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3786" link="CC Madhya 17.8" link_text="CC Madhya 17.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.8|CC Madhya 17.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon hearing this, Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī replied, “Dear Lord, You are completely independent. Since You are not dependent on anyone, You will do whatever You desire.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1715_135" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3793" link="CC Madhya 17.15" link_text="CC Madhya 17.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.15|CC Madhya 17.15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara then said, “Here is Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya, who has great love for You. He is an honest, learned scholar, and he is advanced in spiritual consciousness.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1715_136" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3793" link="CC Madhya 17.15" link_text="CC Madhya 17.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.15|CC Madhya 17.15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted a new man, not a person like Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa who would fall for women. Svarūpa Dāmodara therefore immediately pointed out a new brāhmaṇa named Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya. Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī had studied this person very thoroughly and had seen that he had great love for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Not only did he love the Lord, but he was also learned and honest. He was not duplicitous, and he was advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. According to a Bengali proverb, ati bhakti corera lakṣaṇa: "Too much devotion is a symptom of a thief." A person who assumes himself to be a great devotee but mentally is thinking of something else is duplicitous. One who is not duplicitous is called sādhu. Svarūpa Dāmodara immediately pointed out that Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya was quite fit to accompany the Lord because he was a learned scholar and was simple and had great love for Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He was also advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness; therefore he was considered appropriate for accompanying the Lord as a personal servant.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1720_137" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3798" link="CC Madhya 17.20" link_text="CC Madhya 17.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.20|CC Madhya 17.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the request of Svarūpa Dāmodara Paṇḍita and agreed to take Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya with Him.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1723_138" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3801" link="CC Madhya 17.23" link_text="CC Madhya 17.23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.23|CC Madhya 17.23, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While all the devotees were searching for the Lord, Svarūpa Dāmodara restrained them. Then everyone fell silent, knowing the mind of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya17185_139" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3961" link="CC Madhya 17.185" link_text="CC Madhya 17.185">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.185|CC Madhya 17.185, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">To select our mahājanas in the Gauḍīya-sampradāya, we have to follow in the footsteps of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His representatives. His next representative is Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, and the next representatives are the six Gosvāmīs—Śrī Rūpa, Śrī Sanātana, Bhaṭṭa Raghunātha, Śrī Jīva, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa and Dāsa Raghunātha.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya19121_140" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4360" link="CC Madhya 19.121" link_text="CC Madhya 19.121">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.121|CC Madhya 19.121, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Indeed, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, whose dear friend was Svarūpa Dāmodara, was the exact replica of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and he was very, very dear to the Lord. Being the embodiment of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's ecstatic love, Rūpa Gosvāmī was naturally very beautiful. He very carefully followed the principles enunciated by the Lord, and he was a competent person to explain properly the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu expanded His mercy to Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī just so he could render service by writing transcendental literatures."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25228_141" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5899" link="CC Madhya 25.228" link_text="CC Madhya 25.228">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.228|CC Madhya 25.228, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotees like Svarūpa Dāmodara, Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Jagadānanda, Kāśīśvara, Govinda and Vakreśvara all came to meet the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25253_142" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5924" link="CC Madhya 25.253" link_text="CC Madhya 25.253">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.253|CC Madhya 25.253, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Also in the Fourteenth Chapter is an account of how the emotional ecstasy of the gopīs was described by Svarūpa Dāmodara and tasted by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAntya113_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="13" link="CC Antya 1.13" link_text="CC Antya 1.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.13|CC Antya 1.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to Jagannātha Purī from Vṛndāvana, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosāñi immediately sent news of the Lord's arrival to the devotees in Bengal.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya176_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="76" link="CC Antya 1.76" link_text="CC Antya 1.76">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.76|CC Antya 1.76, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Only Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī knew the purpose for which the Lord recited that verse. According to the Lord's attitude, he used to quote other verses to enable the Lord to relish mellows.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya185_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="85" link="CC Antya 1.85" link_text="CC Antya 1.85">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.85|CC Antya 1.85, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took that verse and showed it to Svarūpa Dāmodara for him to examine. Then the Lord questioned him.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya186_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="86" link="CC Antya 1.86" link_text="CC Antya 1.86">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.86|CC Antya 1.86, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"How could Rūpa Gosvāmī have understood My heart?" the Lord asked.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara replied, “I can understand that You have already bestowed Your causeless mercy upon him.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya190_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="90" link="CC Antya 1.90" link_text="CC Antya 1.90">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.90|CC Antya 1.90, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said, “As soon as I saw the unique composition of this verse, I could immediately understand that You had bestowed upon him Your special mercy.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1103104_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="103" link="CC Antya 1.103-104" link_text="CC Antya 1.103-104">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.103-104|CC Antya 1.103-104, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">On the next day, after visiting the temple of Jagannātha as usual, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu met Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara. They all went together to Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, and on the way the Lord greatly praised his qualities.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1113_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="112" link="CC Antya 1.113" link_text="CC Antya 1.113">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.113|CC Antya 1.113, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited the verse, and when all the devotees heard it, their minds were struck with wonder.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1124_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="123" link="CC Antya 1.124" link_text="CC Antya 1.124">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.124|CC Antya 1.124, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara replied for Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī: “He wanted to compose a drama about the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa. He planned to describe in one book both the pastimes of Vṛndāvana and those of Dvārakā and Mathurā.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2Summary_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="223" link="CC Antya 2 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 2 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2 Summary|CC Antya 2 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A devotee named Bhagavān Ācārya was exceptionally faithful to the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Nevertheless, his brother, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Ācārya, discoursed upon the commentary of impersonalism (Māyāvāda). Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2Summary_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="223" link="CC Antya 2 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 2 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2 Summary|CC Antya 2 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Later, when Junior Haridāsa, following the order of Bhagavān Ācārya, went to collect alms from Mādhavīdevī, he committed an offense by talking intimately with a woman although he was in the renounced order. Because of this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejected Junior Haridāsa, and despite all the requests of the Lord's stalwart devotees, the Lord did not accept him again. One year after this incident, Junior Haridāsa went to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā and committed suicide. In his spiritual body, however, he continued to sing devotional songs, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard them. When the Vaiṣṇavas of Bengal went to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, these incidents became known to Svarūpa Dāmodara and others.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya285_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="304" link="CC Antya 2.85" link_text="CC Antya 2.85">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.85|CC Antya 2.85, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">He was fully absorbed in thoughts of fraternal relationships with God. He was an incarnation of a cowherd boy, and thus his dealings with Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī were very friendly.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya292_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="311" link="CC Antya 2.92" link_text="CC Antya 2.92">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.92|CC Antya 2.92, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhagavān Ācārya said to Svarūpa Dāmodara, "Gopāla, my younger brother, has returned to my home, having concluded his study of Vedānta philosophy."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya293_12" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="312" link="CC Antya 2.93" link_text="CC Antya 2.93">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.93|CC Antya 2.93, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhagavān Ācārya requested Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī to hear from Gopāla the commentary upon Vedānta. Svarūpa Dāmodara, however, somewhat angry because of love, spoke as follows.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya297_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="316" link="CC Antya 2.97" link_text="CC Antya 2.97">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.97|CC Antya 2.97, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In spite of Svarūpa Dāmodara's protest, Bhagavān Ācārya continued, "We are all fixed at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa with our hearts and souls. Therefore the Śārīraka-bhāṣya cannot change our minds."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya298_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="317" link="CC Antya 2.98" link_text="CC Antya 2.98">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.98|CC Antya 2.98, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara replied, “Nevertheless, when we hear the Māyāvāda philosophy, we hear that Brahman is knowledge and that the universe of māyā is false, but we gain no spiritual understanding.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya299_15" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="318" link="CC Antya 2.99" link_text="CC Antya 2.99">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.99|CC Antya 2.99, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī wanted to impress upon Bhagavān Ācārya that even though someone firmly fixed in devotion to Kṛṣṇa's service might not be deviated by hearing the Māyāvāda bhāṣya, that bhāṣya is nevertheless full of impersonal words and ideas—such as Brahman—which represent knowledge but which are impersonal.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2106_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="325" link="CC Antya 2.106" link_text="CC Antya 2.106">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.106|CC Antya 2.106, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The three were Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Rāmānanda Rāya and Śikhi Māhiti, and the half a person was Śikhi Māhiti's sister.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2115_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="334" link="CC Antya 2.115" link_text="CC Antya 2.115">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.115|CC Antya 2.115, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Haridāsa fasted continuously for three days. Then Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and other confidential devotees approached Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to inquire from Him.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2138_18" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="357" link="CC Antya 2.138" link_text="CC Antya 2.138">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.138|CC Antya 2.138, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosāñi said, “Please hear us, Haridāsa, for we all wish you well. Please believe this.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2141_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="360" link="CC Antya 2.141" link_text="CC Antya 2.141">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.141|CC Antya 2.141, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Having said this, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī induced Haridāsa to bathe and take prasādam. After thus reassuring him, he returned home.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2153154_20" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="372" link="CC Antya 2.153-154" link_text="CC Antya 2.153-154">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.153-154|CC Antya 2.153-154, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One day Jagadānanda, Svarūpa, Govinda, Kāśīśvara, Śaṅkara, Dāmodara and Mukunda all went to bathe in the sea. They could hear Haridāsa singing from a distant place as if calling them in his original voice.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2157_21" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="375" link="CC Antya 2.157" link_text="CC Antya 2.157">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.157|CC Antya 2.157, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"We cannot see his material form," they said, "but still we hear his sweet singing. Therefore he must have become a ghost."</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara, however, protested, “This is a false guess.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2166_22" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="384" link="CC Antya 2.166" link_text="CC Antya 2.166">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.166|CC Antya 2.166, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, concluded that because Haridāsa had committed suicide at the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamunā, he must have ultimately attained shelter at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya3269_23" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="656" link="CC Antya 3.269" link_text="CC Antya 3.269">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.269|CC Antya 3.269, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I have heard from the mouth of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī all that Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recorded in his notes about the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya4108110_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="768" link="CC Antya 4.108-110" link_text="CC Antya 4.108-110">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 4.108-110|CC Antya 4.108-110, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu introduced Sanātana Gosvāmī to these and other selected devotees: Advaita Ācārya, Nityānanda Prabhu, Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura, Vakreśvara Paṇḍita, Vāsudeva Datta, Murāri Gupta, Rāghava Paṇḍita, Dāmodara Paṇḍita, Paramānanda Purī, Brahmānanda Bhāratī, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Rāmānanda Rāya, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita, Śaṅkara Paṇḍita, Kāśīśvara and Govinda.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5Summary_25" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="897" link="CC Antya 5 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 5 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5 Summary|CC Antya 5 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A brāhmaṇa from Bengal composed a drama about the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and went to Jagannātha Purī to show it to the associates of the Lord. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, heard the drama, he discerned a tinge of Māyāvāda philosophy and pointed it out to the author. Although Svarūpa Dāmodara condemned the entire drama, by reference to secondary meanings of the introductory verse he nevertheless satisfied the brāhmaṇa. That brāhmaṇa poet thus became greatly obliged to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, renounced his family connections and stayed at Jagannātha Purī with the associates of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya53_26" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="900" link="CC Antya 5.3" link_text="CC Antya 5.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.3|CC Antya 5.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I offer my respectful obeisances unto Advaita Prabhu, the ocean of mercy, and to all the devotees, such as Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya595_27" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="989" link="CC Antya 5.95" link_text="CC Antya 5.95">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.95|CC Antya 5.95, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Customarily, anyone who composed a song, verse, literary composition or poem about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu first had to bring it to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī to be heard.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya596_28" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="990" link="CC Antya 5.96" link_text="CC Antya 5.96">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.96|CC Antya 5.96, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">If passed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, it could be presented for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to hear.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya598_29" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="992" link="CC Antya 5.98" link_text="CC Antya 5.98">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.98|CC Antya 5.98, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would not hear anything before Svarūpa Dāmodara heard it first. The Lord made this etiquette a regulative principle.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya599_30" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="993" link="CC Antya 5.99" link_text="CC Antya 5.99">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.99|CC Antya 5.99, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhagavān Ācārya submitted to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, “A good brāhmaṇa has prepared a drama about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu that appears exceptionally well composed.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5101_31" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="995" link="CC Antya 5.101" link_text="CC Antya 5.101">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.101|CC Antya 5.101, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī replied, “Dear Bhagavān Ācārya, you are a very liberal cowherd boy. Sometimes the desire awakens within you to hear any kind of poetry.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5109_32" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1002" link="CC Antya 5.109" link_text="CC Antya 5.109">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.109|CC Antya 5.109, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Despite the explanation of Svarūpa Dāmodara, Bhagavān Ācārya requested, "Please hear the drama once. If you hear it, you can consider whether it is good or bad."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5110_33" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1003" link="CC Antya 5.110" link_text="CC Antya 5.110">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.110|CC Antya 5.110, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">For two or three days Bhagavān Ācārya continually asked Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī to hear the poetry. Because of his repeated requests, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī wanted to hear the poetry written by the brāhmaṇa from Bengal.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5111_34" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1004" link="CC Antya 5.111" link_text="CC Antya 5.111">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.111|CC Antya 5.111, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī sat down with other devotees to hear the poetry, and then the poet began to read the introductory verse.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5113_35" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1006" link="CC Antya 5.113" link_text="CC Antya 5.113">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.113|CC Antya 5.113, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When everyone present heard the verse, they all commended the poet, but Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī requested him, "Kindly explain this verse."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5116_36" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1009" link="CC Antya 5.116" link_text="CC Antya 5.116">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.116|CC Antya 5.116, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing this, everyone present was greatly happy. But Svarūpa Dāmodara, who alone was very unhappy, began to speak in great anger.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5120_37" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1013" link="CC Antya 5.120" link_text="CC Antya 5.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.120|CC Antya 5.120, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara continued, “Because you have committed an offense to Lord Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, you will attain a hellish destination. You do not know how to describe the Absolute Truth, but nevertheless you have tried to do so. Therefore you must be condemned.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5120_38" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1013" link="CC Antya 5.120" link_text="CC Antya 5.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.120|CC Antya 5.120, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The brāhmaṇa poet from Bengal was an offender in the estimation of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, for although the poet had no knowledge of the Absolute Truth, he had nevertheless tried to describe it. The Bengali poet was an offender to both Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Jagannātha. Because he had made a distinction between Lord Jagannātha's body and His soul and because he had indicated that Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was different from Lord Jagannātha, he had committed offenses to Them both.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5128_39" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1020" link="CC Antya 5.128" link_text="CC Antya 5.128">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.128|CC Antya 5.128, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing this explanation, all the members of the assembly were struck with wonder. "Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has spoken the real truth," they admitted. "The brāhmaṇa from Bengal has committed an offense by wrongly describing Lord Jagannātha and Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5129_40" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1021" link="CC Antya 5.129" link_text="CC Antya 5.129">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.129|CC Antya 5.129, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the Bengali poet heard this chastisement from Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, he was ashamed, fearful and astonished. Indeed, being like a duck in a society of white swans, he could not say anything.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5130_41" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1022" link="CC Antya 5.130" link_text="CC Antya 5.130">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.130|CC Antya 5.130, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Seeing the poet's unhappiness, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, who was naturally very kindhearted, advised him so that he could derive some benefit.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5131_42" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1023" link="CC Antya 5.131" link_text="CC Antya 5.131">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.131|CC Antya 5.131, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Herein Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī instructs the poet from Bengal to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from a pure Vaiṣṇava and learn from him. In India especially, there is now a class of professional Bhāgavatam readers whose means of livelihood is to go from village to village, town to town, reading Bhāgavatam and collecting dakṣiṇā, or rewards, in the form of money or goods, like umbrellas, cloth and fruit. Thus there is now a system of Bhāgavata business, with recitations called bhāgavata-saptāha that continue for one week, although this is not mentioned in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Nowhere does Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam say that the Bhāgavatam should be heard for one week from professionals. Rather, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.17) says, śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ: one should regularly hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from a self-realized Vaiṣṇava. By such hearing, one becomes pious: hṛdy antaḥ-stho hy abhadrāṇi vidhunoti suhṛt satām.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5131_43" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1023" link="CC Antya 5.131" link_text="CC Antya 5.131">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.131|CC Antya 5.131, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the proper process, but people are accustomed to being misled by professional Bhāgavatam reciters. Therefore Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī herein advises that one should not hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from professional reciters. Instead, one must hear and learn the Bhāgavatam from a self-realized Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5131_44" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1023" link="CC Antya 5.131" link_text="CC Antya 5.131">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.131|CC Antya 5.131, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Condemning this process of hearing the Bhāgavatam from professionals, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī says, yāha, bhāgavata paḍa vaiṣṇavera sthāne: "To understand the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, you must approach a self-realized Vaiṣṇava." One should rigidly avoid hearing the Bhāgavatam from a Māyāvādī or other nondevotee who simply performs a grammatical jugglery of words to twist some meaning from the text, collect money from the innocent public, and thus keep people in darkness.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5131_45" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1023" link="CC Antya 5.131" link_text="CC Antya 5.131">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.131|CC Antya 5.131, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī strictly prohibits the behavior of the materialistic so-called hearers of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Instead of awakening real love for Kṛṣṇa, such hearers of the Bhāgavatam become more and more attached to household affairs and sex life (yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham ([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.45|SB 7.9.45]])). One should hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from a person who has no connection with material activities, or, in other words, from a paramahaṁsa Vaiṣṇava, one who has achieved the highest stage of sannyāsa.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5132_46" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1024" link="CC Antya 5.132" link_text="CC Antya 5.132">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.132|CC Antya 5.132, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara continued, “Associate regularly with the devotees of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for then only will you understand the waves of the ocean of devotional service.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5135_47" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1027" link="CC Antya 5.135" link_text="CC Antya 5.135">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.135|CC Antya 5.135, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī informed the Bengali poet, "Because of your ignorance and your leaning toward Māyāvāda philosophy, you cannot distinguish the difference between the Māyāvāda and Vaiṣṇava philosophies. Therefore the process you have adopted to praise Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Jagannātha does not follow the proper system; indeed, it is irregular and offensive. Fortunately, however, through your words, the goddess of learning, mother Sarasvatī, has tactfully offered her prayers to her master, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5156_48" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1048" link="CC Antya 5.156" link_text="CC Antya 5.156">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.156|CC Antya 5.156, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon hearing this proper explanation by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the Bengali poet fell down at the feet of all the devotees and took shelter of them with a straw in his mouth.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6Summary_49" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1057" link="CC Antya 6 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 6 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6 Summary|CC Antya 6 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went into transcendental fits of ecstatic love, Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī attended to Him and satisfied Him as He desired.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6Summary_50" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1057" link="CC Antya 6 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 6 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6 Summary|CC Antya 6 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu entrusted Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. Therefore another name for Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī is Svarūpera Raghu, or the Raghunātha of Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6Summary_51" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1057" link="CC Antya 6 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 6 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6 Summary|CC Antya 6 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Understanding that Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was living by begging from the chatras, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu presented him with His own guñjā-mālā and a stone from Govardhana Hill. Thereafter, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī used to eat rejected food that he had collected and washed. This renounced life greatly pleased both Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took by force some of the same food, thus blessing Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī for his renunciation.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya61_52" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1058" link="CC Antya 6.1" link_text="CC Antya 6.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.1|CC Antya 6.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">With the ropes of His causeless mercy, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu employed a trick to deliver Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī from the blind well of contemptible family life. He made Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī one of His personal associates, placing him under the charge of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. I offer my obeisances unto Him.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya66_53" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1063" link="CC Antya 6.6" link_text="CC Antya 6.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.6|CC Antya 6.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the Lord acutely felt pangs of separation from Kṛṣṇa, only Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya's talks about Kṛṣṇa and the sweet songs of Svarūpa Dāmodara kept Him alive.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya68_54" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1065" link="CC Antya 6.8" link_text="CC Antya 6.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.8|CC Antya 6.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Two people—Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī—stayed with the Lord to pacify Him by reciting various verses about Kṛṣṇa's pastimes and by singing appropriate songs for His satisfaction.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya610_55" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1067" link="CC Antya 6.10" link_text="CC Antya 6.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.10|CC Antya 6.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Previously, when Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī felt the pangs of separation from Kṛṣṇa, Her constant companion Lalitā kept Her alive by helping Her in many ways. Similarly, when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu felt Rādhārāṇī’s emotions, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī helped Him maintain His life.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya611_56" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1068" link="CC Antya 6.11" link_text="CC Antya 6.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.11|CC Antya 6.11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">To describe the fortunate position of Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī is extremely difficult. They were renowned as intimately confidential friends of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6142_57" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1199" link="CC Antya 6.142" link_text="CC Antya 6.142">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.142|CC Antya 6.142, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu will accept you and place you under the charge of His secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara. You will thus become one of the most confidential internal servants and will attain shelter at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6189_58" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1245" link="CC Antya 6.189" link_text="CC Antya 6.189">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.189|CC Antya 6.189, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Raghunātha dāsa met Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Lord was sitting with His companions, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6192_59" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1248" link="CC Antya 6.192" link_text="CC Antya 6.192">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.192|CC Antya 6.192, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Raghunātha dāsa offered prayers at the lotus feet of all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. Seeing the special mercy Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had bestowed upon Raghunātha dāsa, they embraced him also.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6201_60" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1257" link="CC Antya 6.201" link_text="CC Antya 6.201">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.201|CC Antya 6.201, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Seeing Raghunātha dāsa skinny and dirty because of having traveled for twelve days and fasted, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, His heart melting due to causeless mercy, spoke to Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6202_61" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1258" link="CC Antya 6.202" link_text="CC Antya 6.202">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.202|CC Antya 6.202, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"My dear Svarūpa," He said, “I entrust this Raghunātha dāsa to you. Please accept him as your son or servant.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6203_62" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1259" link="CC Antya 6.203" link_text="CC Antya 6.203">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.203|CC Antya 6.203, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"There are now three Raghunāthas among My associates. From this day forward, this Raghunātha should be known as the Raghu of Svarūpa Dāmodara."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6203_63" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1259" link="CC Antya 6.203" link_text="CC Antya 6.203">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.203|CC Antya 6.203, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had three Raghus among His associates—Vaidya Raghunātha (vide Ādi-līlā 11.22), Bhaṭṭa Raghunātha and Dāsa Raghunātha. Dāsa Raghunātha became celebrated as the Raghunātha of Svarūpa.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya6204_64" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1260" link="CC Antya 6.204" link_text="CC Antya 6.204">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.204|CC Antya 6.204, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Saying this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu grasped the hand of Raghunātha dāsa and entrusted him to the hands of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya6205_65" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1261" link="CC Antya 6.205" link_text="CC Antya 6.205">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.205|CC Antya 6.205, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī accepted Raghunātha dāsa, saying, "Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, whatever You order is accepted." He then embraced Raghunātha dāsa again.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6213_66" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1269" link="CC Antya 6.213" link_text="CC Antya 6.213">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.213|CC Antya 6.213, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Raghunātha dāsa stayed under the care of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, and Govinda supplied him remnants of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's food for five days.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya6228_67" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1284" link="CC Antya 6.228" link_text="CC Antya 6.228">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.228|CC Antya 6.228, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The next day, Raghunātha dāsa inquired at the lotus feet of Svarūpa Dāmodara about his duty.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6230_68" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1286" link="CC Antya 6.230" link_text="CC Antya 6.230">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.230|CC Antya 6.230, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Raghunātha dāsa never even spoke a word before the Lord. Instead, he informed the Lord of his desires through Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Govinda.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6231_69" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1287" link="CC Antya 6.231" link_text="CC Antya 6.231">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.231|CC Antya 6.231, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The next day, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī submitted to Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, “Raghunātha dāsa has this to say at Your lotus feet.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6233_70" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1289" link="CC Antya 6.233" link_text="CC Antya 6.233">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.233|CC Antya 6.233, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Smiling, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu told Raghunātha dāsa, “I have already appointed Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī as your instructor.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya6238_71" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1294" link="CC Antya 6.238" link_text="CC Antya 6.238">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.238|CC Antya 6.238, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“I have briefly given you My instructions. Now you will get all details about them from Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6241_72" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1297" link="CC Antya 6.241" link_text="CC Antya 6.241">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.241|CC Antya 6.241, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again entrusted him to Svarūpa Dāmodara. Thus Raghunātha dāsa rendered very confidential service with Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6241_73" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1297" link="CC Antya 6.241" link_text="CC Antya 6.241">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.241|CC Antya 6.241, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Antaraṅga-sevā refers to service performed in one's spiritual body. Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was formerly Lalitādevī. Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who was among his assistants, now also began to serve Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa within his mind.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6252_74" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1308" link="CC Antya 6.252" link_text="CC Antya 6.252">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.252|CC Antya 6.252, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has placed him under the charge of Svarūpa Dāmodara. Raghunātha dāsa has become just like the life of all the Lord's devotees.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6263_75" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1319" link="CC Antya 6.263" link_text="CC Antya 6.263">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.263|CC Antya 6.263, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Raghunātha dāsa is a disciple of Yadunandana Ācārya, who is very gentle and is extremely dear to Vāsudeva Datta, a resident of Kāñcanapallī. Because of Raghunātha dāsa's transcendental qualities, he is always more dear than life for all of us devotees of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Since he has been favored by the abundant mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he is always pleasing. Vividly providing a superior example for the renounced order, this very dear follower of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī is the ocean of renunciation. Who among the residents of Nīlācala (Jagannātha Purī) does not know him very well?</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6272_76" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1328" link="CC Antya 6.272" link_text="CC Antya 6.272">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.272|CC Antya 6.272, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Raghunātha dāsa neglected to invite Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for two consecutive months, the Lord, the son of Śacī, questioned Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6273_77" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1329" link="CC Antya 6.273" link_text="CC Antya 6.273">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.273|CC Antya 6.273, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord asked, "Why has Raghunātha dāsa stopped inviting Me?"</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara replied, “He must have reconsidered something in his mind.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6277_78" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1333" link="CC Antya 6.277" link_text="CC Antya 6.277">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.277|CC Antya 6.277, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Considering all these points," Svarūpa Dāmodara concluded, "he has stopped inviting You." Hearing this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu smiled and spoke as follows.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya6282_79" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1338" link="CC Antya 6.282" link_text="CC Antya 6.282">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.282|CC Antya 6.282, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard this news from Govinda, He inquired from Svarūpa Dāmodara, "Why does Raghunātha dāsa no longer stand at the Siṁha-dvāra gate to beg alms?"</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6283_80" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1339" link="CC Antya 6.283" link_text="CC Antya 6.283">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.283|CC Antya 6.283, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara replied, "Raghunātha dāsa felt unhappy standing at the Siṁha-dvāra. Therefore he is now going at midday to beg alms from the charity booth."</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya6299_81" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1355" link="CC Antya 6.299" link_text="CC Antya 6.299">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.299|CC Antya 6.299, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara gave Raghunātha dāsa two cloths, each about six inches long, a wooden platform and a jug in which to keep water.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6303_82" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1359" link="CC Antya 6.303" link_text="CC Antya 6.303">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.303|CC Antya 6.303, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After Raghunātha dāsa had thus worshiped the govardhana-śilā for some time, Svarūpa Dāmodara one day spoke to him as follows.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6305_83" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1361" link="CC Antya 6.305" link_text="CC Antya 6.305">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.305|CC Antya 6.305, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Raghunātha dāsa then began offering the costly sweetmeats known as khājā, which Govinda, following the order of Svarūpa Dāmodara, would supply.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya6319_84" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1375" link="CC Antya 6.319" link_text="CC Antya 6.319">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.319|CC Antya 6.319, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One day Svarūpa Dāmodara saw the activities of Raghunātha dāsa. Thus he smiled and asked for a small portion of that food and ate it.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6320_85" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1376" link="CC Antya 6.320" link_text="CC Antya 6.320">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.320|CC Antya 6.320, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said, "You eat such nectar every day, but you never offer it to us. What is your character?"</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya6323_86" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1379" link="CC Antya 6.323" link_text="CC Antya 6.323">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.323|CC Antya 6.323, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was taking another morsel of food, Svarūpa Dāmodara caught Him by the hand and said, "It is not fit for You." Thus he forcibly took the food away.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya6327_87" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1383" link="CC Antya 6.327" link_text="CC Antya 6.327">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.327|CC Antya 6.327, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Although I am a fallen soul, the lowest of men, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu delivered me from the blazing forest fire of great material opulence by His mercy. He handed me over in great pleasure to Svarūpa Dāmodara, His personal associate. The Lord also gave me the garland of small conchshells that He wore on His chest and a stone from Govardhana Hill, although they were very dear to Him. That same Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu awakens within my heart and makes me mad after Him."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya738_88" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1424" link="CC Antya 7.38" link_text="CC Antya 7.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 7.38|CC Antya 7.38, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The transcendental mellows of ecstatic love are personified by Svarūpa Dāmodara. By his association I have understood Vṛndāvana's transcendental mellow of conjugal love.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya746_89" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1432" link="CC Antya 7.46" link_text="CC Antya 7.46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 7.46|CC Antya 7.46, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Uddhava desires to take on his head the dust of the gopīs' lotus feet. I have learned about all these transcendental loving affairs of Lord Kṛṣṇa from Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya753_90" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1437" link="CC Antya 7.53" link_text="CC Antya 7.53">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 7.53|CC Antya 7.53, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Vallabha Bhaṭṭa was greatly proud of his knowledge in devotional service, and therefore he wanted to speak about Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu without understanding the Lord's position. The Lord therefore hinted in many ways that if Vallabha Bhaṭṭa wanted to know what devotional service actually is, he would have to learn from all the devotees He mentioned, beginning with Advaita Ācārya, Lord Nityānanda, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and Rāmānanda Rāya. As Svarūpa Dāmodara has said, if one wants to learn the meaning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, one must take lessons from a realized soul. One should not proudly think that one can understand the transcendental loving service of the Lord simply by reading books.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya768_91" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1452" link="CC Antya 7.68" link_text="CC Antya 7.68">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 7.68|CC Antya 7.68, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara, Jagadānanda, Kāśīśvara and Śaṅkara, along with Rāghava and Dāmodara Paṇḍita, took charge of distributing the prasādam.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya7100_92" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1483" link="CC Antya 7.100" link_text="CC Antya 7.100">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 7.100|CC Antya 7.100, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Every day, Vallabha Bhaṭṭa would come to the place of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to engage in unnecessary arguments with Advaita Ācārya and other great personalities, such as Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya7153154_93" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1535" link="CC Antya 7.153-154" link_text="CC Antya 7.153-154">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 7.153-154|CC Antya 7.153-154, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Some days passed, and when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, finally pleased with Vallabha Bhaṭṭa, accepted his invitation, the Lord sent Svarūpa Dāmodara, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita and Govinda to call for Gadādhara Paṇḍita.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya7155_94" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1536" link="CC Antya 7.155" link_text="CC Antya 7.155">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 7.155|CC Antya 7.155, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">On the way, Svarūpa Dāmodara said to Gadādhara Paṇḍita, “Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to test you. Therefore He neglected you.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya96_95" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1662" link="CC Antya 9.6" link_text="CC Antya 9.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 9.6|CC Antya 9.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">During the day He chanted, danced and saw Lord Jagannātha in the temple. At night He tasted transcendental bliss in the company of Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya936_96" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1692" link="CC Antya 9.36" link_text="CC Antya 9.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 9.36|CC Antya 9.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, fell at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and submitted the following plea.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1067_97" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1873" link="CC Antya 10.67" link_text="CC Antya 10.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 10.67|CC Antya 10.67, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu remembered a line in the Orissan language and ordered Svarūpa Dāmodara to sing it.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1078_98" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1884" link="CC Antya 10.78" link_text="CC Antya 10.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 10.78|CC Antya 10.78, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus only one group continued chanting with Svarūpa Dāmodara, and they chanted very softly.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya10131_99" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1935" link="CC Antya 10.131" link_text="CC Antya 10.131">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 10.131|CC Antya 10.131, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the varieties of the remaining prasādam were kept to eat throughout the year. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ate His lunch, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī would serve it little by little.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya113_100" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1967" link="CC Antya 11.3" link_text="CC Antya 11.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.3|CC Antya 11.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All glories to the master of Śrīnivāsa Ṭhākura! All glories to the master of Haridāsa Ṭhākura! All glories to the dear master of Gadādhara Paṇḍita! All glories to the master of the life of Svarūpa Dāmodara!</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1112_101" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1976" link="CC Antya 11.12" link_text="CC Antya 11.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.12|CC Antya 11.12, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the daytime Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu engaged in dancing and chanting and in seeing the temple of Lord Jagannātha. At night, in the company of His most confidential devotees, such as Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, He tasted the nectar of the transcendental mellows of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa's pastimes.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1115_102" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1979" link="CC Antya 11.15" link_text="CC Antya 11.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.15|CC Antya 11.15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya, the chief assistants in Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's pastimes, remained with Him both day and night.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1149_103" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2013" link="CC Antya 11.49" link_text="CC Antya 11.49">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.49|CC Antya 11.49, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, all the devotees of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu surrounded Haridāsa Ṭhākura and began congregational chanting.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1161_104" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2025" link="CC Antya 11.61" link_text="CC Antya 11.61">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.61|CC Antya 11.61, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced for some time, and then Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī informed Him of other rituals for the body of Ṭhākura Haridāsa.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1176_105" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2040" link="CC Antya 11.76" link_text="CC Antya 11.76">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.76|CC Antya 11.76, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">However, Svarūpa Dāmodara stopped them, and the shopkeepers returned to their shops and sat down with their baskets.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1177_106" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2041" link="CC Antya 11.77" link_text="CC Antya 11.77">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.77|CC Antya 11.77, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara sent Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu back to His residence and kept with him four Vaiṣṇavas and four servant carriers.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1178_107" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2042" link="CC Antya 11.78" link_text="CC Antya 11.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.78|CC Antya 11.78, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said to all the shopkeepers, "Deliver to me four palmfuls of prasādam from each and every item."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1180_108" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2044" link="CC Antya 11.80" link_text="CC Antya 11.80">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.80|CC Antya 11.80, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Not only did Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī bring prasādam, but Vāṇīnātha Paṭṭanāyaka and Kāśī Miśra also sent large quantities.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1183_109" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2047" link="CC Antya 11.83" link_text="CC Antya 11.83">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.83|CC Antya 11.83, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī requested Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "Please sit down and watch. With these men to help me, I shall distribute the prasādam."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1184_110" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2048" link="CC Antya 11.84" link_text="CC Antya 11.84">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 11.84|CC Antya 11.84, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The four men—Svarūpa Dāmodara, Jagadānanda, Kāśīśvara and Śaṅkara—distributed the prasādam continuously.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya126_111" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2077" link="CC Antya 12.6" link_text="CC Antya 12.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 12.6|CC Antya 12.6, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This was His situation day and night. Unable to find peace of mind, He passed His nights with great difficulty in the company of Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya13Summary_112" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2226" link="CC Antya 13 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 13 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13 Summary|CC Antya 13 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Thinking Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was uncomfortable sleeping on bark of plantain trees, Jagadānanda made a pillow and quilt for Him. The Lord, however, did not accept them. Then Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī made another pillow and quilt from finely shredded plantain leaves, and after strongly objecting, the Lord accepted them.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya139_113" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2235" link="CC Antya 13.9" link_text="CC Antya 13.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.9|CC Antya 13.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Jagadānanda said to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, "Today please personally persuade Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to lie down on the bed."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1310_114" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2236" link="CC Antya 13.10" link_text="CC Antya 13.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.10|CC Antya 13.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When it was time for the Lord to go to bed, Svarūpa Dāmodara stayed nearby, but when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw the quilt and pillow, He was immediately very angry.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1313_115" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2239" link="CC Antya 13.13" link_text="CC Antya 13.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.13|CC Antya 13.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said to the Lord, "I cannot contradict Your supreme will, my Lord, but if You do not accept the bedding, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita will feel great unhappiness."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1316_116" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2242" link="CC Antya 13.16" link_text="CC Antya 13.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.16|CC Antya 13.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Svarūpa Dāmodara returned and related all these incidents, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita felt very unhappy.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1317_117" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2243" link="CC Antya 13.17" link_text="CC Antya 13.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.17|CC Antya 13.17, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī devised another method. First he secured a large quantity of dry banana leaves.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1319_118" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2245" link="CC Antya 13.19" link_text="CC Antya 13.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.19|CC Antya 13.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way, Svarūpa Dāmodara made some bedding and a pillow, and after much endeavor by the devotees, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted them.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1327_119" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2253" link="CC Antya 13.27" link_text="CC Antya 13.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.27|CC Antya 13.27, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Jagadānanda then submitted a plea to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. "For a very long time," he said, “I have wanted to go to Vṛndāvana.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1330_120" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2256" link="CC Antya 13.30" link_text="CC Antya 13.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.30|CC Antya 13.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī submitted this appeal at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu: “Jagadānanda Paṇḍita intensely desires to go to Vṛndāvana.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1333_121" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2259" link="CC Antya 13.33" link_text="CC Antya 13.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.33|CC Antya 13.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At the request of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu granted Jagadānanda Paṇḍita permission to go. The Lord sent for him and instructed him as follows.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1388_122" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2314" link="CC Antya 13.88" link_text="CC Antya 13.88">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.88|CC Antya 13.88, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After saying this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned home. When Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and His other attendants heard about the incident, they became very much afraid.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya13104_123" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2330" link="CC Antya 13.104" link_text="CC Antya 13.104">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.104|CC Antya 13.104, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord asked Govinda to arrange for Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa's accommodations and then introduced him to all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya13116_124" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2342" link="CC Antya 13.116" link_text="CC Antya 13.116">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.116|CC Antya 13.116, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After taking permission from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara, Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa returned to Vārāṇasī.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya14Summary_125" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2365" link="CC Antya 14 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 14 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14 Summary|CC Antya 14 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One night, Govinda and Svarūpa Dāmodara noticed that although the three doors to the Lord's room were closed and locked, the Lord was not present inside. Seeing this, Svarūpa Dāmodara and the other devotees went outside and saw the Lord lying unconscious by the gate known as Siṁha-dvāra. His body had become unusually long, and the joints of His bones were loose. The devotees gradually brought Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu back to His senses by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, and then they took Him back to His residence.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya144_126" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2369" link="CC Antya 14.4" link_text="CC Antya 14.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.4|CC Antya 14.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All glories to Svarūpa Dāmodara and all the other devotees, headed by Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura! Please give me the strength to describe the character of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya147_127" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2372" link="CC Antya 14.7" link_text="CC Antya 14.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.7|CC Antya 14.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded all these transcendental activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in their notebooks.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya147_128" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2372" link="CC Antya 14.7" link_text="CC Antya 14.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.7|CC Antya 14.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī witnessed Caitanya Mahāprabhu's activities firsthand and recorded them in two notebooks. Therefore, without reference to these notebooks one cannot understand the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Anyone inventing some new method for worshiping Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is certainly unable to understand the Lord's pastimes, for he is bereft of the real process of approaching the Lord.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya148_129" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2373" link="CC Antya 14.8" link_text="CC Antya 14.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.8|CC Antya 14.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In those days, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī lived with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, whereas all other commentators lived far away from Him.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya148_130" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2373" link="CC Antya 14.8" link_text="CC Antya 14.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.8|CC Antya 14.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Besides Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, there were many others who also recorded Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's activities. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura believes that the people of the world would benefit greatly if such notes were available. It is a most unfortunate situation for human society that none of these notebooks is still extant.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya149_131" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2374" link="CC Antya 14.9" link_text="CC Antya 14.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.9|CC Antya 14.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">These two great personalities (Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī) recorded the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu moment by moment. They described these activities briefly as well as elaborately in their notebooks.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya149_132" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2374" link="CC Antya 14.9" link_text="CC Antya 14.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.9|CC Antya 14.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">For future reference, we should remember that Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recorded the pastimes briefly, whereas Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī recorded them elaborately. These two great personalities simply recorded the facts; they did not create any descriptive literary embellishments.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1410_133" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2375" link="CC Antya 14.10" link_text="CC Antya 14.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.10|CC Antya 14.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara wrote short notes, whereas Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī wrote elaborate descriptions. I shall now describe Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's activities more elaborately, as if fluffing out compressed cotton.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1440_134" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2405" link="CC Antya 14.40" link_text="CC Antya 14.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.40|CC Antya 14.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At night, Lord Caitanya would reveal to Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya the ecstatic feelings of His mind.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1442_135" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2407" link="CC Antya 14.42" link_text="CC Antya 14.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.42|CC Antya 14.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Having lost His acquired gem, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became overwhelmed with lamentation by remembering its attributes. Then, grasping the necks of Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, He cried, "Alas, where is My Lord Hari? Where is Hari?" Finally He became restless and lost all patience.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1456_136" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2421" link="CC Antya 14.56" link_text="CC Antya 14.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.56|CC Antya 14.56, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmānanda Rāya recited verses from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī sang of Kṛṣṇa's pastimes. In this way, they brought Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to external consciousness.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1457_137" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2422" link="CC Antya 14.57" link_text="CC Antya 14.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.57|CC Antya 14.57, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After half the night had passed in this way, Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī made Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lie down on His bed in the inner room.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1458_138" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2423" link="CC Antya 14.58" link_text="CC Antya 14.58">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.58|CC Antya 14.58, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then Rāmānanda Rāya returned home, and Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Govinda lay down in front of the door to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's room.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1460_139" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2425" link="CC Antya 14.60" link_text="CC Antya 14.60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.60|CC Antya 14.60, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After some time, Svarūpa Dāmodara could no longer hear Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chanting. When he entered the room, he found the three doors locked, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was gone.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1463_140" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2428" link="CC Antya 14.63" link_text="CC Antya 14.63">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.63|CC Antya 14.63, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At first they were overjoyed to see Him, but when they saw His condition, all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, were very anxious.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1469_141" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2433" link="CC Antya 14.69" link_text="CC Antya 14.69">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.69|CC Antya 14.69, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When they saw this, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and all the other devotees began to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa very loudly into Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's ear.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1474_142" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2438" link="CC Antya 14.74" link_text="CC Antya 14.74">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.74|CC Antya 14.74, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very much astonished to find Himself in front of the Siṁha-dvāra. He asked Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, "Where am I? What am I doing here?"</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1475_143" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2439" link="CC Antya 14.75" link_text="CC Antya 14.75">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.75|CC Antya 14.75, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said, "My dear Lord, please get up. Let us go to Your place. There I shall tell You everything that has happened."</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1489_144" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2453" link="CC Antya 14.89" link_text="CC Antya 14.89">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.89|CC Antya 14.89, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita, Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Rāmāi, Nandāi and Śaṅkara Paṇḍita are some of the devotees who ran after Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1498_145" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2462" link="CC Antya 14.98" link_text="CC Antya 14.98">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.98|CC Antya 14.98, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Svarūpa Dāmodara and the other devotees reached the spot and saw the condition of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they began to cry.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya14104_146" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2468" link="CC Antya 14.104" link_text="CC Antya 14.104">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.104|CC Antya 14.104, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw all the Vaiṣṇavas, He returned to partial external consciousness and spoke to Svarūpa Dāmodara.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya15Summary_147" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2488" link="CC Antya 15 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 15 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15 Summary|CC Antya 15 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">On the night of the rāsa dance, the gopīs, bereaved by Kṛṣṇa's absence, searched for Kṛṣṇa from one forest to another. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu adopted the same transcendental thoughts as those of the gopīs and was filled with ecstatic emotion. Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited a verse from the Gīta-govinda just suitable to the Lord's emotions.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1511_148" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2499" link="CC Antya 15.11" link_text="CC Antya 15.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.11|CC Antya 15.11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">That night, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was attended by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya. Keeping His hands around their necks, the Lord began to lament.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1513_149" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2501" link="CC Antya 15.13" link_text="CC Antya 15.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.13|CC Antya 15.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Reciting that verse, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu expressed His burning emotions. Then, with great lamentation, He explained the verse to Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1524_150" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2512" link="CC Antya 15.24" link_text="CC Antya 15.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.24|CC Antya 15.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After speaking in this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu caught hold of the necks of Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara. Then the Lord said, "My dear friends, please listen to Me. What shall I do? Where shall I go? Where can I go to get Kṛṣṇa? Please, both of you, tell Me how I can find Him."</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1525_151" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2513" link="CC Antya 15.25" link_text="CC Antya 15.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.25|CC Antya 15.25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus absorbed in transcendental pain, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lamented day after day in the company of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1526_152" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2514" link="CC Antya 15.26" link_text="CC Antya 15.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.26|CC Antya 15.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">To enhance the ecstatic mood of the Lord, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī would sing appropriate songs and Rāmānanda Rāya would recite suitable verses. In this way they were able to pacify Him.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1557_153" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2545" link="CC Antya 15.57" link_text="CC Antya 15.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.57|CC Antya 15.57, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw the transcendental beauty of Kṛṣṇa, He fell down on the ground unconscious. At that time, all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, joined Him in the garden.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1582_154" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2570" link="CC Antya 15.82" link_text="CC Antya 15.82">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.82|CC Antya 15.82, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then said to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, "Please sing a song that will bring consciousness to My heart."</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1583_155" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2571" link="CC Antya 15.83" link_text="CC Antya 15.83">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.83|CC Antya 15.83, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus for the pleasure of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī began very sweetly singing the following verse from the Gīta-govinda.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1585_156" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2573" link="CC Antya 15.85" link_text="CC Antya 15.85">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.85|CC Antya 15.85, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī sang this special song, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately got up and began to dance in ecstatic love.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1588_157" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2576" link="CC Antya 15.88" link_text="CC Antya 15.88">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.88|CC Antya 15.88, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu had Svarūpa Dāmodara sing the same verse again and again. Each time he sang it, the Lord tasted it anew, and thus He danced again and again.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1589_158" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2577" link="CC Antya 15.89" link_text="CC Antya 15.89">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.89|CC Antya 15.89, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After the Lord had been dancing for a long time, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī stopped singing the verse.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1590_159" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2578" link="CC Antya 15.90" link_text="CC Antya 15.90">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.90|CC Antya 15.90, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Over and over again Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "Go on! Sing! Sing!" But Svarūpa Dāmodara, seeing the Lord's fatigue, did not resume singing.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1670_160" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2658" link="CC Antya 16.70" link_text="CC Antya 16.70">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 16.70|CC Antya 16.70, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"But I could not induce this boy to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa." Hearing this, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī began to speak.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya16106_161" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2694" link="CC Antya 16.106" link_text="CC Antya 16.106">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 16.106|CC Antya 16.106, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then gave shares of the prasādam to Rāmānanda Rāya, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and all the other devotees.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya16150_162" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2736" link="CC Antya 16.150" link_text="CC Antya 16.150">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 16.150|CC Antya 16.150, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While thus speaking like a madman, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became full of ecstatic emotion. In the company of His two friends, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya, He sometimes danced, sometimes sang and sometimes became unconscious in ecstatic love. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed His days and nights in this way.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya16151_163" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2737" link="CC Antya 16.151" link_text="CC Antya 16.151">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 16.151|CC Antya 16.151, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Expecting the mercy of Svarūpa, Rūpa, Sanātana and Raghunātha dāsa, and taking their lotus feet on my head, I, the most fallen Kṛṣṇadāsa, continue chanting the epic Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, which is sweeter than the nectar of transcendental bliss.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya174_164" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2742" link="CC Antya 17.4" link_text="CC Antya 17.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.4|CC Antya 17.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the company of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once passed half the night talking about the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya175_165" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2743" link="CC Antya 17.5" link_text="CC Antya 17.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.5|CC Antya 17.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As they talked of Kṛṣṇa, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī would sing songs exactly suitable for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's transcendental emotions.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya178_166" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2746" link="CC Antya 17.8" link_text="CC Antya 17.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.8|CC Antya 17.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed half the night experiencing varieties of emotions. Finally, after making the Lord lie down on His bed, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya returned to their homes.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1713_167" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2751" link="CC Antya 17.13" link_text="CC Antya 17.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.13|CC Antya 17.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Meanwhile, not hearing any sounds from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Govinda immediately sent for Svarūpa Dāmodara and opened the doors.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1714_168" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2752" link="CC Antya 17.14" link_text="CC Antya 17.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.14|CC Antya 17.14, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī lit a torch and went out with all the devotees to search for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1722_169" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2760" link="CC Antya 17.22" link_text="CC Antya 17.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.22|CC Antya 17.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stood up and then sat down again. Looking here and there, He inquired from Svarūpa Dāmodara, “Where have you brought Me?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1729_170" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2767" link="CC Antya 17.29" link_text="CC Antya 17.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.29|CC Antya 17.29, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In great ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said to Svarūpa Dāmodara in a faltering voice, "My ears are dying of thirst. Please recite something to quench this thirst. Let Me hear it."</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1730_171" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2768" link="CC Antya 17.30" link_text="CC Antya 17.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.30|CC Antya 17.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Understanding the ecstatic emotions of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara, in a sweet voice, recited the following verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1761_172" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2799" link="CC Antya 17.61" link_text="CC Antya 17.61">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.61|CC Antya 17.61, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Where shall I go? Where can I find You? Please tell Me. I shall go there." Speaking in this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu began running. But Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī stood up, caught Him and took Him on his lap. Then Svarūpa Dāmodara brought Him back to His place and made Him sit down.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1762_173" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2800" link="CC Antya 17.62" link_text="CC Antya 17.62">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.62|CC Antya 17.62, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Suddenly Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to external consciousness and said to Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, "My dear Svarūpa, please sing some sweet songs." The Lord's ears were satisfied when He heard Svarūpa Dāmodara sing songs from the Gīta-govinda and those by the poet Vidyāpati.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya18Summary_174" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2812" link="CC Antya 18 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 18 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18 Summary|CC Antya 18 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As soon as the fisherman touched the Lord's body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. His own madness frightened him, however, because he thought that he was being haunted by a ghost. As he was about to seek a ghost charmer, he met Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and the other devotees on the beach, who had been looking everywhere for the Lord. After some inquiries, Svarūpa Dāmodara could understand that the fisherman had caught Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in his net. Since the fisherman was afraid of being haunted by a ghost, Svarūpa Dāmodara gave him a slap and chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa, which immediately pacified him. Thereafter, when the devotees chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra loudly, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to His external consciousness. Then they brought Him back to His own residence.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya188_175" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2820" link="CC Antya 18.8" link_text="CC Antya 18.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.8|CC Antya 18.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When He heard Svarūpa Dāmodara recite a verse concerning the rāsa-līlā or He Himself recited one, He would personally explain it, as He had previously done.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1822_176" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2833" link="CC Antya 18.22" link_text="CC Antya 18.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.22|CC Antya 18.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Only a person on the level of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī can fully know what Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu tastes in His love for Kṛṣṇa.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1833_177" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2844" link="CC Antya 18.33" link_text="CC Antya 18.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.33|CC Antya 18.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Meanwhile, all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara, lost sight of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Astonished, they began searching for Him, asking, "Where has the Lord gone?"</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1842_178" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2853" link="CC Antya 18.42" link_text="CC Antya 18.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.42|CC Antya 18.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara proceeded east with others, looking for the Lord on the beach or in the water.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1845_179" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2856" link="CC Antya 18.45" link_text="CC Antya 18.45">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.45|CC Antya 18.45, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Seeing the activities of the fisherman, everyone was astonished. Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, therefore, asked him for information.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1860_180" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2871" link="CC Antya 18.60" link_text="CC Antya 18.60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.60|CC Antya 18.60, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing this, Svarūpa Dāmodara could understand the full truth of the matter. He spoke sweetly to the fisherman.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1864_181" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2875" link="CC Antya 18.64" link_text="CC Antya 18.64">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.64|CC Antya 18.64, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said to the fisherman, “My dear sir, the person you are thinking is a ghost is not actually a ghost but is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1869_182" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2880" link="CC Antya 18.69" link_text="CC Antya 18.69">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.69|CC Antya 18.69, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara said, “The Lord's body becomes transformed in His love for God. Sometimes the joints of His bones separate, and His body becomes very much elongated.”</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya18110_183" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2921" link="CC Antya 18.110" link_text="CC Antya 18.110">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.110|CC Antya 18.110, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Speaking in this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fully returned to external consciousness. Seeing Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the Lord questioned him.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya18111_184" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2922" link="CC Antya 18.111" link_text="CC Antya 18.111">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.111|CC Antya 18.111, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Why have you brought Me here?" He asked. Then Svarūpa Dāmodara answered Him.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya18119_185" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2930" link="CC Antya 18.119" link_text="CC Antya 18.119">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.119|CC Antya 18.119, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī had Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bathe in the sea, and then he very happily brought Him back home.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya19Summary_186" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2933" link="CC Antya 19 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 19 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19 Summary|CC Antya 19 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Every year, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Jagadānanda Paṇḍita to visit His mother in Navadvīpa with gifts of cloth and prasādam. After one such visit, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita returned to Purī with a sonnet that Advaita Ācārya had written. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu read it, His ecstasy was so great that all the devotees feared that the Lord would very soon pass away. The Lord's condition was so serious that at night He would bruise and bloody His face by rubbing it against the walls. To stop this, Svarūpa Dāmodara asked Śaṅkara Paṇḍita to stay at night in the same room with the Lord.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1924_187" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2957" link="CC Antya 19.24" link_text="CC Antya 19.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.24|CC Antya 19.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Although he knew the secret, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī inquired from the Lord, "What is the meaning of this sonnet? I could not understand it."</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1929_188" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2962" link="CC Antya 19.29" link_text="CC Antya 19.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.29|CC Antya 19.29, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing this, all the devotees were astonished, especially Svarūpa Dāmodara, who became somewhat morose.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1933_189" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2966" link="CC Antya 19.33" link_text="CC Antya 19.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.33|CC Antya 19.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu spoke like a madman, holding Rāmānanda Rāya by the neck, and He questioned Svarūpa Dāmodara, thinking him to be His gopī friend.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="CCAntya1954_190" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2987" link="CC Antya 19.54" link_text="CC Antya 19.54">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.54|CC Antya 19.54, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya then devised various means to pacify the Lord. They sang songs of meeting that transformed His heart and made His mind peaceful.</p>
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</div>
<div id="CCAntya1955_191" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2988" link="CC Antya 19.55" link_text="CC Antya 19.55">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.55|CC Antya 19.55, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lamented in this way, half the night passed. Then Svarūpa Dāmodara made the Lord lie down in the room known as the Gambhīrā.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1956_192" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2989" link="CC Antya 19.56" link_text="CC Antya 19.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.56|CC Antya 19.56, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After the Lord was made to lie down, Rāmānanda Rāya returned home, and Svarūpa Dāmodara and Govinda lay down at the door of the Gambhīrā.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1960_193" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2993" link="CC Antya 19.60" link_text="CC Antya 19.60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.60|CC Antya 19.60, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rubbed His face against the walls all night long, making a peculiar sound, "goṅ-goṅ," which Svarūpa Dāmodara could hear through the door.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1961_194" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2994" link="CC Antya 19.61" link_text="CC Antya 19.61">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.61|CC Antya 19.61, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lighting a lamp, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Govinda entered the room. When they saw the Lord's face, they were filled with sorrow.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1966_195" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2999" link="CC Antya 19.66" link_text="CC Antya 19.66">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.66|CC Antya 19.66, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara was very anxious, but then he had an idea. The following day, he and the other devotees considered it together.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya19100_196" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3033" link="CC Antya 19.100" link_text="CC Antya 19.100">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.100|CC Antya 19.100, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Both Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya sang to the Lord, who danced and enjoyed happiness until the morning arrived. Then the Lord's two associates devised a plan to bring Him to external consciousness.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya20Summary_197" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3046" link="CC Antya 20 Summary" link_text="CC Antya 20 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20 Summary|CC Antya 20 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed His nights tasting the meaning of the Śikṣāṣṭaka prayers in the company of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya204_198" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3050" link="CC Antya 20.4" link_text="CC Antya 20.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.4|CC Antya 20.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Day and night He tasted transcendental blissful songs and verses with two associates, namely Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya208_199" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3054" link="CC Antya 20.8" link_text="CC Antya 20.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.8|CC Antya 20.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In great jubilation, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “My dear Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya, know from Me that chanting the holy names is the most feasible means of salvation in this Age of Kali.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2020_200" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3066" link="CC Antya 20.20" link_text="CC Antya 20.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.20|CC Antya 20.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “O Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya, hear from Me the symptoms of how one should chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra to awaken very easily one's dormant love for Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya209698_201" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3140" link="CC Antya 20.96-98" link_text="CC Antya 20.96-98">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.96-98|CC Antya 20.96-98, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I am writing this book by the mercy of the lotus feet of Śrī Govindadeva, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Lord Nityānanda, Advaita Ācārya, other devotees and the readers of this book, as well as Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who is my spiritual master, and Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī. I have also been specifically favored by another Supreme Personality.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya20111_202" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3153" link="CC Antya 20.111" link_text="CC Antya 20.111">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.111|CC Antya 20.111, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">That chapter also describes how Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī rejected the drama of a poet from Bengal and established the glories of the Deity.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya20113_203" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3155" link="CC Antya 20.113" link_text="CC Antya 20.113">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.113|CC Antya 20.113, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">That chapter also tells how the Lord entrusted Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī to the care of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and gave Raghunātha dāsa the gift of a stone from Govardhana Hill and a garland of small conchshells.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya20144146_204" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3185" link="CC Antya 20.144-146" link_text="CC Antya 20.144-146">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.144-146|CC Antya 20.144-146, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">So that my desires may be fulfilled, I place the lotus feet of these personalities on my head: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, with Lord Nityānanda, Advaita Ācārya and Their devotees, as well as Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who is my spiritual master, and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3>
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<div id="TLCPrologue_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="4" link="TLC Prologue" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter Prologue">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC Prologue|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter Prologue]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">From this time, that is, from his 31 st year, Mahāprabhu continually lived in Purī in the house of Kāśi Miśra until his disappearance in his forty-eighth year at the time of saṅkīrtana in the temple of Ṭoṭā-gopīnātha. During these 18 years, his life was one of settled love and piety. He was surrounded by numerous followers, all of whom were of the highest order of Vaiṣṇavas and who were distinguished from the common people by their purest character and learning, firm religious principles and spiritual love of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. Svarūpa Dāmodara, who had been known by the name of Puruṣottamācārya while Mahāprabhu was in Nadia, joined him from Benares and accepted service as his secretary. No production of any poet or philosopher could be laid before Mahāprabhu unless Svarūpa had passed it as pure and useful. Rāya Rāmānanda was his second mate. Both he and Svarūpa would sing while Mahāprabhu expressed his sentiments on a certain point of worship. Paramānanda Purī was his minister in matters of religion.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Devotion"><h3>Nectar of Devotion</h3>
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<div id="NOD49_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="300" link="NOD 49" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 49">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 49|Nectar of Devotion 49]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was residing in Jagannātha Purī, many poets and devotees used to come to Him and offer their different kinds of poetry, but the regulation was that Lord Caitanya's secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara, first examined all of these writings scrutinizingly, and if he would find that there were no incompatibilities in the rasas, or transcendental mellows, he would then allow the poet to approach Lord Caitanya and recite his poetry.</p>
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<div id="Krsna_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB Introduction|Krsna Book Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Next, let us offer our respectful obeisances to Svarūpa Dāmodara, who acted as the private secretary to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; and let us offer our respectful obeisances to Śrī Vāsudeva Datta and the constant attendant of Lord Caitanya, Śrī Govinda, and the constant friend of Lord Caitanya, Mukunda, and also to Murāri Gupta.</p>
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