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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.223
সন্ন্যাস করি’ প্রভু যবে শান্তিপুর আইলা ।
তবে আসি’ রঘুনাথ প্রভুরে মিলিলা ॥ ২২৩ ॥
sannyāsa kari’ prabhu yabe śāntipura āilā
tabe āsi’ raghunātha prabhure mililā
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to Śāntipura after accepting the renounced order, Raghunātha dāsa met Him.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had accepted the renounced order.
After accepting that order, He returned to Śāntipura.
Raghunātha dāsa met Him when He returned there.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Returning from Rāmakeli, He met Raghunātha dāsa and after giving him instructions sent him back home. Thereafter the Lord returned to Nīlācala and began to make plans to go to Vṛndāvana without a companion.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 16
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Recall the sequence in one sentence: the Lord accepted the renounced order, returned to Śāntipura, and met Raghunātha dāsa.
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