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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.20
এই মত বঙ্গে প্রভু করে নানা লীলা ।
এথা নবদ্বীপে লক্ষ্মী বিরহে দুঃখী হৈলা ॥ ২০ ॥
ei mata baṅge prabhu kare nānā līlā
ethā navadvīpe lakṣmī virahe duḥkhī hailā
Because the Lord was engaged in various ways in preaching work in East Bengal, His wife, Lakṣmīdevī, was very unhappy at home in separation from her husband.
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The Lord was engaged in preaching work in East Bengal.
He carried out this preaching work in various ways.
His wife, Lakṣmīdevī, remained at home and was very unhappy in separation from her husband.
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:
While Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was touring East Bengal, His wife, Lakṣmīdevī, was bitten by a serpent or by the serpent of separation, and thus she left this world. When the Lord returned home, He saw that His mother was overwhelmed with grief because of Lakṣmīdevī’s death.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “separation”
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What does Lakṣmīdevī’s unhappiness reveal about how deeply she felt the Lord’s absence?
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