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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.85
আমার হৃদয় হৈতে গেলা তোমার হৃদয়ে ।
হেন বুঝি, জন্মিবেন কোন মহাশয়ে ॥ ৮৫ ।
āmāra hṛdaya haite gelā tomāra hṛdaye
hena bujhi, janmibena kona mahāśaye
“From my heart it entered your heart. I therefore understand that a great personality will soon take birth.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord’s abode passed from his heart into his wife’s heart.
He understood this as a sign that a great personality would take birth.
He expected that birth to occur soon.
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:
Nīlāmbara Cakravartī, who was a great astrologer, immediately prepared a horoscope, and by astrological calculation he saw that the child was a great personality. This chapter describes the symptoms of this great personality.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 connection did he make between the movement from heart to heart and the coming birth?
Write one sentence summarizing what he understood from the dream.
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