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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.24
শিষ্যগণ লঞা পুনঃ বিদ্যার বিলাস ।
বিদ্যা–বলে সবা জিনি’ ঔদ্ধত্য প্রকাশ ॥ ২৪ ॥
śiṣya-gaṇa lañā punaḥ vidyāra vilāsa
vidyā-bale sabā jini’ auddhatya prakāśa
After coming back from East Bengal, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again began educating others. By the strength of His education He conquered everyone, and thus He was greatly proud.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned from East Bengal.
After returning, He again began educating others.
By the strength of His education He conquered everyone, and He was greatly proud.
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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