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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.253
আনন্দিত ভক্তগণ আসিয়া মিলিলা ।
প্রেম-আলিঙ্গন প্রভু সবারে করিলা ॥ ২৫৩ ॥
ānandita bhakta-gaṇa āsiyā mililā
prema-āliṅgana prabhu sabāre karilā
All the devotees then came and met the Lord with great happiness. The Lord embraced each of them in great ecstatic love.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
All the devotees came to meet the Lord.
They met Him with great happiness.
The Lord embraced each devotee in great ecstatic love.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “embraced”
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”
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What touches me about the Lord embracing each devotee?
Give a warm, personal welcome to someone you meet today.
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