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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.113
সেইরূপে এইরূপে দেখি একাকার ।
কভু ভেদ দেখি, এই মায়ায় তোমার ॥ ১১৩ ॥
sei-rūpe ei-rūpe dekhi ekākāra
kabhu bheda dekhi, ei māyāya tomāra
“I am certain that Your form and the form I saw in my meditation are one and the same. If I see any difference, this is an act of Your illusory energy.”
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The astrologer becomes certain that the Lord before him and the form seen in meditation are one and the same.
In the vision of a perfect devotee, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is a combination of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Seeing Him as different from Kṛṣṇa is due to the Lord’s illusory energy.
In Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s presence, the advanced astrologer became perfectly self-realized. He saw that Kṛṣṇa and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are the same Supreme Person.
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Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 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:
When Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of the four-armed Nārāyaṇa, the gopīs showed their respect, but they were not very interested in Him. In the ecstatic love of the gopīs, all worshipable forms but Kṛṣṇa are rejected.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhā”
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How does recognizing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as Kṛṣṇa Himself shape your understanding of Him?
Spend a quiet moment reflecting on the teaching that Kṛṣṇa and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are the same Supreme Person.
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