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  "label":"Text 31",
  "title":"Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 2.31",
  "description":"\"You are chanting the Gaura-gopāla mantra composed of four syllables. Now please give up the doubts that have resided within you.\""

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Cc. Antya 2.31

Text

'gaura-gopāla mantra' tomāra cāri akṣara
aviśvāsa chāḍa, yei kariyācha antara“

Synonyms

gaura-gopāla mantra—the Gaura-gopāla mantra; tomāra—your; cāri akṣara—composed of four syllables; aviśvāsa chāḍa—give up your doubts; yei—which; kariyācha antara—you have kept within your mind.

Translation

“You are chanting the Gaura-gopāla mantra composed of four syllables. Now please give up the doubts that have resided within you.”

Purport

Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explains the Gaura-gopāla mantra in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Worshipers of Śrī Gaurasundara accept the four syllables gau-ra-aṇ-ga as the Gaura mantra, but pure worshipers of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa accept the four syllables rā-dhā kṛṣ-ṇa as the Gaura-gopāla mantra. However, Vaiṣṇavas consider Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu nondifferent from Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa (śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya). Therefore one who chants the mantra Gaurāṅga and one who chants the names of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are on the same level.