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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 1.136
প্রত্যব্দ আসিবে রথযাত্রা-দরশনে ।
এই ছলে চাহে ভক্তগণের মিলনে ॥ ১৩৬ ॥
pratyabda āsibe ratha-yātrā-daraśane
ei chale cāhe bhakta-gaṇera milane
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu desired to meet all the devotees of Bengal every year. Therefore He ordered them to come to see the Ratha-yātrā festival every year.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu desired to meet all the devotees of Bengal every year.
He ordered them to come to see the Ratha-yātrā festival.
Their visits were to take place every year, as He desired.
Anticipation and hidden longing. The author previews later pastimes, including the inner Vraja mood expressed at Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 1 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:
There is also a description of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstasy that occurred when He recited the verse beginning yaḥ kaumāra-haraḥ, as well as a description of how that ecstasy was explained in the verse beginning priyaḥ so ’yaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ, by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Because he wrote that verse, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was specifically blessed by the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 1
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In this verse: “festival”, “ratha-yātrā”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the Lord’s desire to meet the devotees every year mean to you?
Find the date of the next Ratha-yātrā festival you could attend and mark it on your calendar.
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