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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.86
নিত্যানন্দপ্রভু দুই হাত প্রসারিয়া ।
প্রভুরে ধরিতে চাহে আশপাশ ধাঞা ॥ ৮৬ ॥
nityānanda-prabhu dui hāta prasāriyā
prabhure dharite cāhe āśa-pāśa dhāñā
Nityānanda Prabhu would stretch out His two hands and try to catch the Lord when He was running here and there.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord was running here and there.
Nityānanda Prabhu stretched out His two hands toward Him.
He tried to catch the Lord as He ran.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What care do you notice in Nityānanda Prabhu’s effort to catch the Lord?
Offer a steadying hand today to someone who needs help moving safely.
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