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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.231
এবে যদি মহাপ্রভু ‘শান্তিপুর’ আইলা ।
শুনিয়া পিতারে রঘুনাথ নিবেদিলা ॥ ২৩১ ॥
ebe yadi mahāprabhu ‘śāntipura’ āilā
śuniyā pitāre raghunātha nivedilā
When Raghunātha dāsa learned that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had arrived at Śāntipura, he submitted a request to his father.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had arrived at Śāntipura.
Raghunātha dāsa learned of the Lord’s arrival.
After hearing this news, he submitted a request to his father.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What can you learn from Raghunātha dāsa’s choice to submit a request to his father?
If you need someone’s permission or help today, express your request respectfully and clearly.
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