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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.23
যাবৎ কাল দর্শন করেন গরুড়ের পাছে ।
প্রভুর আগে দর্শন করে লোক লাখে লাখে ॥ ২৩ ॥
yāvat kāla darśana karena garuḍera pāche
prabhura āge darśana kare loka lākhe lākhe
As He viewed Lord Jagannātha from behind the Garuḍa column, hundreds and thousands of people in front of Him were seeing the Deity.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu viewed Lord Jagannātha from behind the Garuḍa column.
Hundreds and thousands of people stood in front of Him.
Those people were also seeing the Deity.
Intense yearning. Darśana, dreams, and visions of Vraja bring overwhelming separation.
The mood of Antya 14 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 He was standing near the Garuḍa-stambha and praying to Lord Jagannātha, a woman from Orissa put her foot on the Lord’s shoulder in her great eagerness to see Lord Jagannātha. Govinda chastised her for this, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu praised her eagerness.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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Reread the verse and identify the Lord’s position, the column, and the crowd.
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