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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 1.65
এই তিন মধ্যে যবে থাকে যেই জন ।
তাঁরে আসি’ আপনে মিলে, — প্রভুর নিয়ম ॥ ৬৫ ॥
ei tina madhye yabe thāke yei jana
tāṅre āsi’ āpane mile, — prabhura niyama
If one of these three was not present, He would meet the others. That was His regular practice.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sometimes one of the three was not present.
When this happened, He would meet the others.
Meeting those who were present was His regular practice.
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:
All of these are described in brief. 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.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.
Can I value meeting those who are available rather than focus on who is absent?
Make time today to speak with someone who is available, even if another person you hoped to meet is absent.
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