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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.126
অবশেষে রাধা কৃষ্ণে করে নিবেদন ।
সেই তুমি, সেই আমি, সেই নব সঙ্গম ॥ ১২৬ ॥
avaśeṣe rādhā kṛṣṇe kare nivedana
sei tumi, sei āmi, sei nava saṅgama
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu spoke thus to Lord Jagannātha: “You are the same Kṛṣṇa, and I am the same Rādhārāṇī. We are meeting again in the same way that We met in the beginning of Our lives.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu addressed Lord Jagannātha directly.
He said, “You are the same Kṛṣṇa, and I am the same Rādhārāṇī.”
He described Their meeting as taking place again in the same way as at the beginning of Their lives.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the repeated word “same” emphasize about this meeting?
Reread Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s words, paying attention to how He describes both Their identities and Their meeting.
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