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Introduction

prabodhānanda se kavi thore
jina rādhā-vallabha kī līlā-rasa me saba rasa ghore |
kevala prema-vilāsa āsa kari, bhava-bandhana dṛḍha tore ||
sahaja mādhurī vacanani, rasika ananyani ke cita core |
pāvana rūpa-nāma-guṇa ura dhari, viṣai-vikāra ju more ||

cāru caraṇa-nakha-canda-bimba meṁ rākhe naina cakore |
jāyā, māyā, gṛha, dehī soṁ, ravi-suta bandhana chore ||

“Poets like Prabodhānanda are very rare. He sang about
all mellows in the divine pastimes of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.
Having broken the strong bounds of material life, his
only hope was to relish those loving pastimes. His natural,
sweet words stole the minds of other exclusively devoted
rasikas. Inside his heart, he always held the Lord’s pure
qualities, names and forms and thus turned away from
all sensual agitation. Like a cakora bird, he kept his eyes
on the moon-like reflection of the beautiful nails of the
Lord’s feet and in this way gave up illusory happiness, wife,
home, the bodily conception and the grip of Yamarāja.”

In his Vaiṣṇava-vandanā, Devakīnandana writes:
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prabodhānanda gosāñi vandoṁ kariyā yatana
ye karilā mahāprabhura guṇera varṇana

“I eagerly offer obeisances unto Śrīla Prabodhānanda
Gosvāmī, who described the transcendental qualities of
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.”

2. Also called Daivakīnandana. He was a disciple of Puruṣottama,
a disciple of Nityānanda Prabhu.