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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.119
এইমত গৌর-শ্যামে, দোঁহে ঠেলাঠেলি ।
স্বরথে শ্যামেরে রাখে গৌর মহাবলী ॥ ১১৯ ॥
ei-mata gaura-śyāme, doṅhe ṭhelāṭheli
svarathe śyāmere rākhe gaura mahā-balī
Thus there was a sort of competition between Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Jagannātha in seeing who would lead, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu was so strong that He made Lord Jagannātha wait in His car.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa Himself assuming the part of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in order to understand Kṛṣṇa. Lord Jagannātha is also Kṛṣṇa.
Mahāprabhu’s leading Lord Jagannātha toward the Guṇḍicā temple corresponded to Rādhārāṇī’s leading Kṛṣṇa toward Vṛndāvana. From the supreme opulence of Dvārakā, He was being led toward the simple village whose inhabitants are filled with ecstatic love for Him.
By stopping to wait, Lord Jagannātha showed that He had not forgotten the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana and could not feel satisfied without Rādhārāṇī’s ecstasy. These competitive exchanges were part of Their love, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu emerged successful.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Public ecstasy with inward longing. The festival’s collective joy carries the profound Vraja mood of meeting and separation.
The mood of Madhya 13 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:
Lord Jagannātha took permission from the goddess of fortune and then started in the car for the Guṇḍicā temple. The road to the temple led along a broad, sandy beach, and on both sides of the road were residential quarters, houses and gardens.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “ecstatic love”
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhārāṇī”
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 the purport change your understanding of Lord Jagannātha’s stopping to wait?
Write one sentence today explaining how Lord Jagannātha’s waiting expressed His remembrance of the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana.
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