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sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
SYNONYMS
sri-rupa—Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha—Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, pade—at the lotus feet of; yara—whose; asa—expectation; caitanya-caritamrta—the book named Caitanya-caritamrta; kahe—describes; krsna-dasa—Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.
Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, following in their footsteps.
How Pradyumna Misra Received Instructions from Ramananda Raya The following summary of the Fifth Chapter is given by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya.
Pradyumna Misra, a resident of Srihatta, came to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to hear from Him about Lord Krsna and His pastimes.
The Lord, however, sent him to Srila Ramananda Raya.
Srila Ramananda Raya was training the deva-dasi dancing girls in the temple, and when Pradyumna Misra heard about this, he returned to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
The Lord, however, elaborately described the character of Srila Ramananda Raya.
Then Pradyumna Misra went to see Ramananda Raya again to hear about the transcendental truth from him.
A brahmana from Bengal composed a drama about the activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and went to Jagannatha Puri to show it to the associates of the Lord.
When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s secretary, Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, heard the drama, he discerned a tinge of Mayavada philosophy and pointed it out to the author.
Although Svarupa Damodara condemned the entire drama, by reference to secondary meanings of the introductory verse he nevertheless satisfied the brahmana.
That brahmana poet thus became greatly obliged to Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, renounced his family connections and stayed at Jagannatha Puri with the associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.