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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.271
মাধবেন্দ্রপুরী তথা গেলা ‘একেশ্বরে’ ।
দুগ্ধদান-চ্ছলে কৃষ্ণ সাক্ষাৎ দিল তাঁরে ॥ ২৭১ ॥
mādhavendra-purī tathā gelā ‘ekeśvare’
dugdha-dāna-cchale kṛṣṇa sākṣāt dila tāṅre
“Mādhavendra Purī went to Vṛndāvana alone, and Kṛṣṇa, on the pretext of giving him milk, granted him an audience.
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Mādhavendra Purī went to Vṛndāvana alone.
Kṛṣṇa granted him an audience there.
Giving him milk was the pretext for that meeting.
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.
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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What stands out to me about Kṛṣṇa granting an audience on the pretext of giving milk?
Read this verse slowly today, pausing to reflect on Kṛṣṇa’s meeting with Mādhavendra Purī.
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