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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.15
তবে ত’ দ্বিভুজ কেবল বংশীবদন ।
শ্যাম–অঙ্গ পীতবস্ত্র ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন ॥ ১৫ ॥
tabe ta’ dvi-bhuja kevala vaṁśī-vadana
śyāma-aṅga pīta-vastra vrajendra-nandana
Finally the Lord showed Nityānanda Prabhu His two-armed form of Kṛṣṇa, the son of Mahārāja Nanda, simply playing on His flute, His bluish body dressed in yellow garments.
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Finally, the Lord showed Nityānanda Prabhu His two-armed form of Kṛṣṇa, the son of Mahārāja Nanda.
He was simply playing His flute, with His bluish body dressed in yellow garments.
Śrī Caitanya-maṅgala vividly elaborates upon this description.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “nanda”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this revelation help me understand that Lord Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa Himself?
Reread the description and spend a moment remembering the Lord’s two-armed form of Kṛṣṇa.
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