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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 Madhya 1.286
এই ত’ কহিল মধ্যলীলার সূত্রগণ ।
শেষ দ্বাদশ বৎসরের শুন বিবরণ ॥ ২৮৬ ॥
ei ta’ kahila madhya-līlāra sūtra-gaṇa
śeṣa dvādaśa vatsarera śuna vivaraṇa
I have thus given a synopsis of the madhya-līlā. Now please hear the pastimes the Lord performed during the last twelve years.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī strictly follows in the footsteps of Śrī Vyāsadeva by giving a synopsis of the Lord’s pastimes.
In the Ādi-līlā, he outlined the Lord’s pastimes in the five stages of boyhood, leaving the detailed description to Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura.
The author gradually describes both the madhya-līlā and the antya-līlā. Having given a synopsis of the madhya-līlā, he asks the reader to hear the Lord’s pastimes during the last twelve years.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
In this chapter there is a summary description of all the pastimes performed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu during the middle period of His activities as well as the six years at the end of His activities. All of these are described in brief.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 1
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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.
How does reading a synopsis help me prepare to hear the Lord’s pastimes in more detail?
Write one sentence summarizing the transition from the madhya-līlā synopsis to the Lord’s last twelve years.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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