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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.31
পূর্বে আসি’ যবে কৈলা জগন্নাথ দরশন ।
জগন্নাথে দেখে — সাক্ষাৎ ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন ॥ ৩১ ॥
pūrve āsi’ yabe kailā jagannātha daraśana
jagannāthe dekhe — sākṣāt vrajendra-nandana
Just previously, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had been seeing Lord Jagannātha as Kṛṣṇa, the son of Mahārāja Nanda, in person.
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Just before this incident, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had been seeing Lord Jagannātha as Kṛṣṇa in person.
The verse identifies Kṛṣṇa as the son of Mahārāja Nanda.
This describes the vision in which Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had been absorbed before His exchange concerning the woman.
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 Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the temple of Lord Jagannātha, He was absorbed in ecstatic love and saw only Kṛṣṇa. As soon as He perceived this woman, however, His external consciousness immediately returned, and He saw Jagannātha, Baladeva and Subhadrā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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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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