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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.77
ভক্তগণ প্রভু-সঙ্গে রহে চারিমাসে ।
প্রভু আজ্ঞা দিলা সবে গেলা গৌড়দেশে ॥ ৭৭ ॥
bhakta-gaṇa prabhu-saṅge rahe cāri-māse
prabhu ājñā dilā sabe gelā gauḍa-deśe
All the devotees remained with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continuously for four months. Then the Lord ordered them back to Bengal, and therefore they returned.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
All the devotees remained continuously with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for four months.
At the end of that time, the Lord ordered them to return to Bengal.
They returned because He had instructed them to do so.
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
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