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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 11.232
দর্শনে আবেশ তাঁর দেখি’ মাত্র জানে ।
কেমনে চৌদিকে দেখে, — ইহা নাহি জানে ॥ ২৩২ ॥
darśane āveśa tāṅra dekhi’ mātra jāne
kemane caudike dekhe, — ihā nāhi jāne
Everyone who saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu could understand that He was performing a miracle, but they did not know how it was that He could see on all four sides.
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Everyone who saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu understood that He was performing a miracle.
He could see on all four sides.
The witnesses did not know how He could do this.
Communal anticipation. Arriving devotees, kīrtana, and longing to meet the Lord converge.
The mood of Madhya 11 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:
After this, the Lord began performing saṅkīrtana, dividing all the devotees into four groups. After saṅkīrtana, all the devotees left for their residential quarters.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 11
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can you appreciate what the witnesses recognized without needing to explain how it happened?
Name one thing the witnesses understood and one thing they did not know.
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