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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 20.126
পঞ্চদশ-পরিচ্ছেদে — উদ্যান-বিলাসে ।
বৃন্দাবনভ্রমে যাহাঁ করিলা প্রবেশে ॥ ১২৬ ॥
pañcadaśa-paricchede — udyāna-vilāse
vṛndāvana-bhrame yāhāṅ karilā praveśe
In the fifteenth chapter is a description of how Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu entered a garden on the seashore and mistook it for Vṛndāvana.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The fifteenth chapter describes Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu entering a garden on the seashore.
He mistook that garden for Vṛndāvana.
The next summary places this event alongside His senses’ attraction to Kṛṣṇa and His search for Kṛṣṇa.
Unconditional devotion. Eight prayers move from cleansing the heart to love that endures even without reciprocation.
The mood of Antya 20 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:
Altogether the Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-eight years. After hinting about the Lord’s disappearance, the author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta gives a short description of the entire Antya-līlā and then ends his book.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this scene invite you to notice about His absorption in Kṛṣṇa?
Pause over the words “mistook it for Vṛndāvana” and reflect on His absorption.
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