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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.34
কুরুক্ষেত্রে দেখি’ কৃষ্ণে ঐছে হৈল মন ।
‘কাহাঁ কুরুক্ষেত্রে আইলাঙ, কাহাঁ বৃন্দাবন ?’ ৩৪ ।। ॥ ৩৪ ॥
kurukṣetre dekhi’ kṛṣṇe aiche haila mana
‘kāhāṅ kurukṣetre āilāṅa, kāhāṅ vṛndāvana?’
When He saw the deities, Lord Caitanya thought He was seeing Kṛṣṇa in Kurukṣetra. He wondered, “Have I come to Kurukṣetra? Where is Vṛndāvana?”
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Seeing the deities, Lord Caitanya thought He was seeing Kṛṣṇa in Kurukṣetra.
He wondered whether He had come to Kurukṣetra and asked where Vṛndāvana was.
His questions express His longing for Vṛndāvana, where He had felt Himself to be with Kṛṣṇa.
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 could no longer see Kṛṣṇa, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu compared Himself to a yogī and described how that yogī was seeing Vṛndāvana. Sometimes all the transcendental ecstatic symptoms were manifest in Him.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: “vṛndāvana”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “longing”
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What does the question “Where is Vṛndāvana?” reveal about Lord Caitanya’s longing?
Pause over the words “Where is Vṛndāvana?” and reflect for a moment on His longing for Kṛṣṇa there.
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