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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.106
সরস্বতী স্বপ্নে তাঁরে উপদেশ কৈল ।
সাক্ষাৎ ঈশ্বর করি’ প্রভুকে জানিল ॥ ১০৬ ॥
sarasvatī svapne tāṅre upadeśa kaila
sākṣāt īśvara kari’ prabhuke jānila
In a dream the goddess informed him of the Lord’s position, and the poetic champion could understand that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.
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The goddess informed the poet of the Lord’s position in a dream.
Through this revelation, the poetic champion came to understand who Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.
Grief and transformed pride. Lakṣmīdevī’s departure brings sorrow; Keśava Kāśmīrī’s pride yields to surrender.
The mood of Ādi 16 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:
In this prayer the Lord found five kinds of literary ornaments and five kinds of literary faults, thus defeating the paṇḍita. Later the Kāśmīrī Paṇḍita, who was known to have been victorious all over the country, submitted himself to the goddess of learning, and by her order he met Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu on the morning of the next day and surrendered unto Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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