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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.6
এই ত’ কহিল গ্রন্থারম্ভে মুখবন্ধ ।
এবে কহি চৈতন্য–লীলাক্রম–অনুবন্ধ ॥ ৬ ॥
ei ta’ kahila granthārambhe mukha-bandha
ebe kahi caitanya-līlā-krama-anubandha
Thus I have spoken the preface of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Now I shall describe Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes in chronological order.
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The author announces that the preface of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta is complete.
He now turns to describing Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes.
He will describe those pastimes in chronological order.
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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How might following the pastimes in time order help me read attentively?
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