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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.84
একদিন মহাপ্রভু সমুদ্রে যাইতে ।
‘চটক’-পর্বত দেখিলেন আচম্বিতে ॥ ৮৪ ॥
eka-dina mahāprabhu samudre yāite
‘caṭaka’-parvata dekhilena ācambite
One day, while Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was going to the sea to bathe, He suddenly saw a sand dune named Caṭaka-parvata.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was going to the sea to bathe.
On the way, He suddenly saw a sand dune named Caṭaka-parvata.
This sight begins the account of His running toward the dune, taking it to be Govardhana Hill.
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:
Once Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu mistook a sand dune known as Caṭaka-parvata for Govardhana Hill. As He ran toward it, He became stunned, and then the eight ecstatic transformations appeared in His body due to great love for Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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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: “govardhana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What details help me follow the beginning of this pastime carefully?
Pause and recall the setting: the Lord is going to the sea when He sees Caṭaka-parvata.
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