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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.81
মিশ্র কহে শচী–স্থানে,—দেখি আন রীত।
জ্যোতির্ময় দেহ, গেহ লক্ষ্মী–অধিষ্ঠিত ॥ ৮১ ॥
miśra kahe śacī-sthāne, — dekhi āna rīta
jyotirmaya deha, geha lakṣmī-adhiṣṭhita
Jagannātha Miśra said to Śacīmātā, “I see wonderful things! Your body is effulgent, and it appears as if the goddess of fortune were now staying personally in my home.
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Jagannātha Miśra told Śacīmātā that he was seeing wonderful things.
He observed that her body was effulgent.
It appeared to him as if the goddess of fortune were personally staying in his home.
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:
Then, in 1407 Śaka Era (A.D. 1486), in the full-moon evening of the month of Phālguna, with the constellation of Siṁha (Leo) on the horizon, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared as the son of Śrī Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra. After hearing of the birth of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, learned scholars and brāhmaṇas, bringing many gifts, came to see the newborn baby.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What sense of wonder do you hear in Jagannātha Miśra’s words?
Read his words aloud once, pausing at his descriptions of Śacīmātā’s effulgence and his home.
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