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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 1.66
দৈবে আসি’ প্রভু যবে ঊর্ধ্বেতে চাহিলা ।
চালে গোঁজা তালপত্রে সেই শ্লোক পাইলা ॥ ৬৬ ॥
daive āsi’ prabhu yabe ūrdhvete cāhilā
cāle goṅjā tāla-patre sei śloka pāilā
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the residence of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, He accidentally saw the palm leaf on the roof, and thus He read the verse composed by him.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s residence.
He accidentally saw the palm leaf on the roof.
He then read the verse that Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī had composed.
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.
Can I attend carefully to what this account states without imagining details it does not give?
Read the translation again and note its three actions: visiting, seeing and reading.
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