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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 1.93
নিত্যানন্দ প্রভু মহাপ্রভু ভুলাইয়া ।
গঙ্গাতীরে লঞা আইলা ‘যমুনা’ বলিয়া ॥ ৯৩ ॥
nityānanda prabhu mahāprabhu bhulāiyā
gaṅgā-tīre lañā āilā ‘yamunā’ baliyā
First of all, Lord Nityānanda bewildered Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu by bringing Him along the banks of the Ganges, saying that it was the river Yamunā.
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Lord Nityānanda brought Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu along the banks of the Ganges.
He told Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu that the river was the Yamunā.
In this way, Lord Nityānanda bewildered Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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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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: “yamunā”
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