আর দিনে আইলা স্বরূপ দামোদর ।
প্রভুর অত্যন্ত মর্মী, রসের সাগর ॥ ১০২ ॥
ara dine aila svarupa damodara
prabhura atyanta marmi, rasera sagara
ara dine-next day; aila-came; svarupa damodara-Svarupa Damodara; prabhura-of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; atyanta-very; marmi-intimate friend; rasera-of transcendental mellows; sagara-ocean.
Svarupa Damodara also arrived the next day. He was a very intimate friend of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and he was an ocean of transcendental mellows.
Svarupa is the name of a brahmacari in Saṅkaracarya's disciplic succession. In the Vedic discipline there are ten names for sannyasis, and it is customary for a brahmacari assisting a sannyasi of the designation Tirtha or Asrama to receive the title Svarupa. Damodara Svarupa was formerly a resident of Navadvipa, and his name was Purusottama Acarya. When he went to Varanasi, he took sannyasa from a sannyasi designated Tirtha. Although he received the title Svarupa in his brahmacari stage, he did not change his name when he took sannyasa. Actually as a sannyasi he should have been called Tirtha, but he chose to retain his original brahmacari title as Svarupa.