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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.5
প্রতিবৎসর প্রভু তাঁরে পাঠান নদীয়াতে ।
বিচ্ছেদ-দুঃখিতা জানি’ জননী আশ্বাসিতে ॥ ৫ ॥
prati-vatsara prabhu tāṅre pāṭhāna nadīyāte
viccheda-duḥkhitā jāni’ jananī āśvāsite
Knowing His mother to be greatly afflicted by separation from Him, the Lord would send Jagadānanda Paṇḍita to Navadvīpa every year to console her.
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The Lord knew that His mother was greatly afflicted by separation from Him.
He sent Jagadānanda Paṇḍita to Navadvīpa to console her.
He arranged this visit every year, showing continuing care for her sorrow.
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:
Every year, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Jagadānanda Paṇḍita to visit His mother in Navadvīpa with gifts of cloth and prasādam. After one such visit, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita returned to Purī with a sonnet that Advaita Ācārya had written.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 19
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Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “separation”
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