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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.4
আর দিন মহাপ্ৰভু হঞা সাবধান ।
রাত্রে উঠি’ গণ-সঙ্গে কৈল প্রাতঃস্নান ॥ ৪ ॥
āra dina mahāprabhu hañā sāvadhāna
rātre uṭhi’ gaṇa-saṅge kaila prātaḥ-snāna
The next day, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His personal associates got up in the dark and attentively took their early-morning baths.
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The next day, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His personal associates rose while it was still dark.
They took their baths early in the morning.
They attended carefully to their bathing.
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:
After bathing early in the morning, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw the deities (Jagannātha, Baladeva and Subhadrā) get aboard their three cars. This function is called Pāṇḍu-vijaya.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.
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In this verse: “associates”
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How might you bring more attention to your own morning bathing?
Take your next bath attentively, without rushing or distracting yourself.
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