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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.34
চব্বিশ বৎসর ছিলা করিয়া সন্ন্যাস ।
ভক্তগণ লঞা কৈলা নীলাচলে বাস ॥ ৩৪ ॥
cabbiśa vatsara chilā kariyā sannyāsa
bhakta-gaṇa lañā kailā nīlācale vāsa
For His remaining twenty-four years, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, after accepting the renounced order of life, stayed at Jagannātha Purī with His devotees.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the renounced order of life.
For His remaining twenty-four years, He stayed at Jagannātha Purī.
He stayed there with His devotees.
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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