80 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 8

Mahaprabhu asked Ramananda Raya to retire from government service and come
to Jagannatha Puri. These descriptions of the meetings between Ramananda Raya
and Sri Caitanya Mahdaprabhu are taken from the notebook of Svartipa Damodara
Gosvami.

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saficarya ramabhidha-bhakta-meghe
sva-bhakti-siddhanta-cayamrtani

gaurabdhir etair amuna vitirnais
taj-jfiatva-ratndlayatam prayati

SYNONYMS

saficarya—by empowering; rama-abhidha—of the name Rama; bhakta-
meghe—in the cloudlike devotee Raya; sva-bhakti—of His own devotional ser-
vice; siddhanta—of conclusions; caya—all collections; amrtani—nectar; gaura-
abdhih—the ocean known as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; etaih—by these;
amunad—by the cloud known as Ramananda Raya; vitirnaih—distributed; tat-
jfiatva—of knowledge of devotional service; ratna-alayatam—the quality of being
an ocean containing valuable jewels; prayati—achieved.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is known as Gauranga, is the reservoir of all
conclusive knowledge in devotional service. He empowered Sri Ramananda
Raya, who may be likened to a cloud of devotional service. This cloud was
filled with all the conclusive purports of devotional service and was em-
powered by the ocean to spread this water over the sea Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu Himself was the ocean of knowledge of pure devotional service.

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