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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.131
আমা লঞা পুনঃ লীলা করহ বৃন্দাবনে ।
তবে আমার মনোবাঞ্ছা হয় ত’ পূরণে ॥ ১৩১ ॥
āmā lañā punaḥ līlā karaha vṛndāvane
tabe āmāra mano-vāñchā haya ta’ pūraṇe
“I therefore request You to come to Vṛndāvana and enjoy pastimes with Me. If You do so, My ambition will be fulfilled.”
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The speaker requests the Lord to come to Vṛndāvana.
The request is for Him to enjoy pastimes there with the speaker.
His doing so would fulfill the speaker’s ambition.
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.
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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What does this request reveal about the speaker’s deepest wish?
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