Text 8]
The Lord's Feelings of Separation
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PURPORT
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's transcendental feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa and His consequent madness are not at all understandable by a person on the material platform. Nonetheless, a so-called party of devotees named  nadīyā-nāgarī  has sprung up and introduced the worship of  Viṣṇupriyā . This certainly indicates their ignorance concerning Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's pastimes. In the opinion of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Țhākura, such worship is a product of the imagination. Many other methods of worshiping Caitanya Mahāprabhu have also been introduced, but they have all been rejected by stalwart devotees like Bhaktivinoda Țhākura. The groups practicing such unauthorized worship have been listed by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Țhākura:
āula, bāula, kartābhajā, neḍā, daraveśa, sāṅi sahajiyā, sakhibhekī, smārta, jāta-gosāñi ativāḍī, cūḍādhārī, gaurāṅga-nāgarī
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī witnessed Caitanya Mahāprabhu's activities firsthand, and they 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.
TEXT 8
সেকালে এ-দুই রহেন মহাপ্রভুর পাশে । আর সব কড়চা-কর্তা রহেন দূরদেশে ॥ ৮ ॥
se-kāle e-dui rahena mahāprabhura pāśe āra saba kaḍacā-kartā rahena dūra-deśe
SYNONYMS
se-kāle —in those days;  e-dui —these two;  rahena —stayed;  mahāprabhura pāśe —with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  āra —other;  saba —all;  kaḍacā-kartā —commentators;  rahena —remained;  dūra-deśe —far away.
TRANSLATION
In those days, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī lived with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, whereas all other commentators lived far away from Him.