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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.200

তাঁরে বিদায় দিল প্রভু সেই গ্রাম হৈতে ।

সে-কালে তাঁর প্রেম-চেষ্টা না পারি বর্ণিতে ॥ ২০০ ॥

tāṅre vidāya dila prabhu sei grāma haite

se-kāle tāṅra prema-ceṣṭā nā pāri varṇite

Translation

Finally Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bade the governor farewell. The intense ecstatic love exhibited by the governor cannot be described.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Ecstatic Love in Separation

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bade farewell to the Muslim governor at Pichaldā.

  2. 2

    The governor experienced symptoms of ecstatic love due to separation from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

  3. 3

    Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī states that these symptoms of intense ecstatic love cannot be described.

Key points from the purport
  • Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bade farewell to the Muslim governor at Pichaldā.
  • Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī herein states that the governor experienced symptoms of ecstatic love due to being separated from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Yearning and deferral. Attempts, delays, meetings, and farewells heighten the desire to reach Vraja.

The mood of Madhya 16 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 16: The Lord’s Attempt to Go to Vṛndāvana

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

From Kaṭaka (Cuttack), Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again requested Gadādhara Paṇḍita to return to Nīlācala, and He bade farewell to Rāmānanda Rāya from Bhadraka. After this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu crossed the border of Orissa state, and He arrived at Pānihāṭi by boat.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 16
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. tāṅreunto the governor
  2. vidāya dilabade farewell
  3. prabhuŚrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  4. sei grāma haitefrom the village known as Pichaldā
  5. se-kālein those days
  6. tāṅrahis
  7. prema-ceṣṭāactivities in ecstatic love
  8. nā pāriI am not able
  9. varṇiteto describe
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Prema · Love of Godhead

    The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “ecstatic love”

  • Vipralambha · Love in separation

    Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “separation”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the governor’s response to farewell reveal about his love for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu?

Practice

Read the translation slowly today, pausing to reflect on the governor’s love in separation.

Live this todayEcstatic Love in SeparationThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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