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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.8
গৌড়-দেশের ভক্তগণ প্রত্যব্দ আসিয়া ।
পুনঃ গৌড়দেশে যায় প্রভুরে মিলিয়া ॥ ৮ ॥
gauḍa-deśera bhakta-gaṇa pratyabda āsiyā
punaḥ gauḍa-deśe yāya prabhure miliyā
Every year, devotees from Bengal would go to Jagannātha Purī to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and after the meeting they would return to Bengal.
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Every year, devotees from Bengal traveled to Jagannātha Purī.
Their purpose was to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
After meeting Him, they returned to Bengal. The verse describes this visit as a yearly practice.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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:
Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, wanted to explain direct meetings with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, meetings with those empowered by Him, and His āvirbhāva appearance. Thus he described the glories of Nṛsiṁhānanda and other devotees.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the devotees’ yearly journey suggest about how much they valued meeting Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
Take one minute today to reflect on the effort these devotees made each year to meet the Lord.
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