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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 1.172
ভিখারী সন্ন্যাসী করে তীর্থ পর্যটন ।
তাঁরে দেখিবারে আইসে দুই চারি জন ॥ ১৭২ ॥
bhikhārī sannyāsī kare tīrtha paryaṭana
tāṅre dekhibāre āise dui cāri jana
Keśava Chatrī informed the Muslim king that Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a mendicant touring different places of pilgrimage and that, as such, only a few people came to see Him.
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Keśava Chatrī told the Muslim king that Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a mendicant.
He described Him as touring different places of pilgrimage.
He told the king that only a few people came to see Him.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What impression of Caitanya Mahāprabhu would this report give the king?
Reread the report and identify the three details Keśava Chatrī chose to share.
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