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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.161
রাত্রি–দিবসে লোকের শুনি’ কোলাহল ।
বারাণসী ছাড়ি’ প্রভু আইলা নীলাচল ॥ ১৬১ ॥
rātri-divase lokera śuni’ kolāhala
vārāṇasī chāḍi’ prabhu āilā nīlācala
Because the city of Vārāṇasī was always full of tumultuous crowds, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, after sending Sanātana to Vṛndāvana, returned to Jagannātha Purī.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The city of Vārāṇasī was always full of tumultuous crowds.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu sent Sanātana to Vṛndāvana before leaving.
Because of the crowds in Vārāṇasī, the Lord returned to Jagannātha Purī.
Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.
The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Learn the words of the verse.
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”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What sequence of events do you notice in this brief account of the Lord’s departure?
Read the translation again and recall where Sanātana was sent and where the Lord returned.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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