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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.94
দুই নেত্রে ভরি’ অশ্রু বহয়ে অপার ।
সমুদ্রে মিলিলা যেন গঙ্গা-যমুনা-ধার ॥ ৯৪ ॥
dui netre bhari’ aśru vahaye apāra
samudre mililā yena gaṅgā-yamunā-dhāra
The Lord’s eyes filled and overflowed with unlimited tears, like the Ganges and Yamunā meeting in the sea.
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The Lord’s eyes filled with tears and overflowed.
His tears are described as unlimited.
Their flow is compared to the Ganges and Yamunā meeting in the sea.
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:
Seeing this, Svarūpa Dāmodara and the other devotees went outside and saw the Lord lying unconscious by the gate known as Siṁha-dvāra. His body had become unusually long, and the joints of His bones were loose.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: “yamunā”
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What does the image of rivers meeting the sea convey to you about the Lord’s tears?
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