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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.7
একদিন করেন প্রভু জগন্নাথ দরশন ।
জগন্নাথে দেখে সাক্ষাৎ ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন ॥ ৭ ॥
eka-dina karena prabhu jagannātha daraśana
jagannāthe dekhe sākṣāt vrajendra-nandana
One day, while Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was looking at Lord Jagannātha in the temple, Lord Jagannātha appeared to be personally Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja.
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One day, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was looking at Lord Jagannātha in the temple.
Lord Jagannātha appeared to Him to be personally Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
The verse identifies Śrī Kṛṣṇa as the son of Nanda Mahārāja.
Absorbed searching. The Lord lives the gopīs’ search for Kṛṣṇa with ecstatic transformations.
The mood of Antya 15 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:
After seeing the upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once more began to feel ecstatic emotions. When He saw the garden on the beach by the sea, He again thought that He was in Vṛndāvana, and when He began to think of Kṛṣṇa engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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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: “nanda”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to you about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s vision of Lord Jagannātha?
Pause over the words “personally Śrī Kṛṣṇa” today and reflect on whom the Lord saw.
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