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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.122
এই শ্লোক মহাপ্রভু পড়ে বার বার ।
স্বরূপ বিনা অর্থ কেহ না জানে ইহার ॥ ১২২ ॥
ei śloka mahāprabhu paḍe bāra bāra
svarūpa vinā artha keha nā jāne ihāra
This verse was recited by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again and again. But for Svarūpa Dāmodara, no one could understand its meaning.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited this verse again and again.
Svarūpa Dāmodara understood its meaning.
Apart from Svarūpa Dāmodara, no one could understand what the verse meant.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu divided His saṅkīrtana party into seven divisions. With two mṛdaṅgas in each division, there were altogether fourteen mṛdaṅgas.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this verse encourage you to be humble about what you understand?
Read the verse twice today, and acknowledge one thing about it you do not yet understand.
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