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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.236
তবে ‘বল’ ‘বল’ প্রভু বলে বারবার ।
পুনঃ পুনঃ কহে শ্রীবাস করিয়া বিস্তার ॥ ২৩৬ ॥
tabe ‘bala’ ‘bala’ prabhu bale vāra-vāra
punaḥ punaḥ kahe śrīvāsa kariyā vistāra
Thereafter the Lord again and again asked him, “Speak on! Speak on!” Thus Śrīvāsa again and again described the pastimes of Vṛndāvana, vividly expanding them.
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The Lord again and again asked Śrīvāsa to continue speaking.
His repeated request was, “Speak on! Speak on!”
Śrīvāsa repeatedly described the pastimes of Vṛndāvana, vividly expanding his descriptions.
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:
Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has already vividly described these pastimes in the Caitanya-bhāgavata; therefore Kṛṣṇa dāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī describes them only briefly. Vivid descriptions of some portions of His pastimes are seen in this chapter, however, because Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has not elaborately described them.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: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I give more patient attention to repeated descriptions of Vṛndāvana’s pastimes?
Read this translation twice today, noticing the eagerness expressed in the Lord’s repeated request.
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