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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.249
মাতার চরণে ধরি’ বহু বিনয় করিল ।
বৃন্দাবন যাইতে তাঁর আজ্ঞা লইল ॥ ২৪৯ ॥
mātāra caraṇe dhari’ bahu vinaya karila
vṛndāvana yāite tāṅra ājñā la-ila
Clasping the feet of His mother, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu very humbly requested her permission. Thus she gave Him leave to go to Vṛndāvana.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu clasped His mother’s feet.
He very humbly requested her permission to go to Vṛndāvana.
His mother gave Him leave to go.
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:
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What can I learn from the humility with which the Lord asked His mother’s permission?
When making a request today, ask humbly rather than taking permission for granted.
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