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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.42
সেই গাড়ে করেন প্রভু পাদ-প্রক্ষালনে ।
তবে করিবারে যায় ঈশ্বর-দরশনে ॥ ৪২ ॥
sei gāḍe karena prabhu pāda-prakṣālane
tabe karibāre yāya īśvara-daraśane
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would wash His feet in this ditch, and then He would enter the temple to see Lord Jagannātha.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would wash His feet in the ditch.
After washing His feet, He would enter the temple.
His purpose in entering the temple was to see Lord Jagannātha.
Sweetness amidst longing. Jagannātha’s prasādam awakens intense awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
The mood of Antya 16 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 the Bengali devotees of the Lord returned to Jagannātha Purī, a gentleman named Kālidāsa, who was an uncle of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, went with them to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kālidāsa had tasted the remnants of food of all the Vaiṣṇavas in Bengal, even Jhaḍu Ṭhākura.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the care with which the Lord approached the temple?
Before your devotional practice today, take a moment to wash and prepare yourself.
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