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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.80
“কালিন্দী দেখিয়া আমি গেলাঙ বৃন্দাবন ।
দেখি, — জলক্রীড়া করেন ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন ॥ ৮০ ॥
“kālindī dekhiyā āmi gelāṅa vṛndāvana
dekhi, — jala-krīḍā karena vrajendra-nandana
“Seeing the river Yamunā,” He said, “I went to Vṛndāvana. There I saw the son of Nanda Mahārāja performing His sporting pastimes in the water.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that, upon seeing the river Yamunā, He went to Vṛndāvana.
There He saw the son of Nanda Mahārāja.
He described seeing Him performing sporting pastimes in the water.
Desperate longing and relief. Mistaking the sea for Yamunā, the Lord enters it; devotees find and revive Him.
The mood of Antya 18 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:
Mistaking the sea for the Yamunā River, He jumped into it, hoping to see the water pastimes Kṛṣṇa enjoyed with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the other gopīs. As He floated in the sea, however, He was washed away to the Koṇārka temple, where a fisherman, thinking that the Lord’s body was a big fish, caught Him in his net and brought Him ashore.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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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”, “yamunā”, “nanda”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What details of the Lord’s account help me attend to the pastime He describes?
Read the Lord’s words aloud once, noticing the place, the person and the activity He names.
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