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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.11
চব্বিশ বৎসর–শেষে করিয়া সন্ন্যাস ।
আর চব্বিশ বৎসর কৈল নীলাচলে বাস ॥ ১১ ॥
cabbiśa vatsara-śeṣe kariyā sannyāsa
āra cabbiśa vatsara kaila nīlācale vāsa
After twenty-four years He accepted the renounced order of life, sannyāsa, and He resided for twenty-four years more at Jagannātha Purī.
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After twenty-four years, He accepted the renounced order of life.
The renounced order of life is called sannyāsa.
He resided for twenty-four years more at Jagannātha Purī.
Jubilation and hope. The Lord appears in Navadvīpa; the theological promise becomes a lived story.
The mood of Ādi 13 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The entire Ādi-līlā describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s household life, and similarly the Antya-līlā describes His life in the sannyāsa order. Within the Lord’s antya-līlā, the first six years of His sannyāsa life are called the madhya-līlā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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