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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.18
তরজা-প্রহেলী আচার্য কহেন ঠারে-ঠোরে ।
প্রভু মাত্র বুঝেন, কেহ বুঝিতে না পারে ॥ ১৮ ॥
tarajā-prahelī ācārya kahena ṭhāre-ṭhore
prabhu mātra bujhena, keha bujhite nā pāre
Advaita Ācārya had written a sonnet in equivocal language with an import that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu could understand but others could not.
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Advaita Ācārya wrote His message as a sonnet.
He used equivocal language—words that could carry more than one meaning.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu could understand its intended meaning, but others could not.
Longing beyond ordinary categories. Extreme separation alternates with moments of visionary encounter.
The mood of Antya 19 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 one such visit, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita returned to Purī with a sonnet that Advaita Ācārya had written. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu read it, His ecstasy was so great that all the devotees feared that the Lord would very soon pass away.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 19
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