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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.95
এই ত’ কহিলুঁ প্রভুর উদ্যান-বিহার ।
বৃন্দাবন-ভ্রমে যাঁহা প্রবেশ তাঁহার ॥ ৯৫ ॥
ei ta’ kahiluṅ prabhura udyāna-vihāra
vṛndāvana-bhrame yāhāṅ praveśa tāṅhāra
Thus I have described Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes in the garden, which He entered, mistaking it for Vṛndāvana.
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The narrator concludes his description of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes in the garden.
The Lord had entered that garden mistaking it for Vṛndāvana.
This statement gives the setting for the dancing and the devotees’ care described in the preceding verses.
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:
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. On the night of the rāsa dance, the gopīs, bereaved by Kṛṣṇa’s absence, searched for Kṛṣṇa from one forest to another.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: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does knowing that the Lord took the garden for Vṛndāvana shape my reading of this scene?
Reread this verse slowly, noting why the Lord entered the garden.
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