CHAPTER 5

How Pradyumna Misra
Received Instructions from Ramdananda 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
Mahdaprabhu and went to Jagannatha Puri to show it to the associates of the Lord.
When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s secretary, Svardpa Damodara Gosvami, heard
the drama, he discerned a tinge of Mayavada philosophy and pointed it out to the
author. Although SvarGpa Damodara condemned the entire drama, by reference
to secondary meanings of the introductory verse he nevertheless satisfied the
braéhmana. That braéhmana poet thus became greatly obliged to Svartipa
Damodara Gosvami, renounced his family connections and stayed at Jagannatha
Puri with the associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

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CASAS SAS: CIVT-at Hows |
cwatelca faacitese Cowm-CamaeICA NS I
vaigunya-kita-kalitah
paisunya-vrana-piditah
dainyarnave nimagno ‘har
caitanya-vaidyam dasraye
SYNONYMS

vaigunya—of material activities; kita—by the germs; kalitah—bitten;

paisunya—of envy; vrana—from boils; piditab —suffering; dainya-arnave —in the
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