Text 103] Ramananda Raya Instructs Pradyumna Misra 167

SYNONYMS

svardpa kahe—SvarGpa Damodara Gosvami said; tumi—you; gopa—cowherd
boy; parama-udara—very liberal; ye-se sastra—anything written as scripture;
sunite—to hear; icchda—desire; upaje—awakens; tomara—of you.

TRANSLATION

Svaripa Damodara Gosvami replied, ‘Dear Bhagavan Acarya, you are a very
liberal cowherd boy. Sometimes the desire awakens within you to hear any
kind of poetry.

TEXT 102
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‘yadva-tadva’ kavira vakye haya ‘rasabhasa’
siddhdanta-viruddha sunite na haya ullasa

SYNONYMS
yadva-tadva kavira—of any so-called poet; vakye—in the words; haya—there
is; rasa-4bhasa—overlapping of transcendental mellows; siddhanta-viruddha—
against the conclusive understanding; sunite—to hear; néd—not; haya—there is;
ullasa—joy.

TRANSLATION

“In the writings of so-called poets there is generally a possibility of over-
lapping transcendental mellows. When the mellows thus go against the con-
clusive understanding, no one likes to hear such poetry.

PURPORT

Yadva-tadva kavi refers to anyone who writes poetry without knowledge of
how to do so. Writing poetry, especially poetry concerning the Vaisnava conclu-
sion, is very difficult. If one writes poetry without proper knowledge, there is
every possibility that the mellows will overlap. When this occurs, no learned or
advanced Vaisnava will like to hear it.

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‘rasa’, ‘rasabhasa’ yara nahika vicara
bhakti-siddhanta-sindhu nahi paya para
