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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.272
বাদিয়ার বাজি পাতি’ চলিলাঙ তথারে ।
বহু-সঙ্গে বৃন্দাবন গমন না করে ॥ ২৭২ ॥
bādiyāra bāji pāti’ calilāṅa tathāre
bahu-saṅge vṛndāvana gamana nā kare
“I then understood that I was going to Vṛndāvana like a magician with his show, and this is certainly not good. No one should go to Vṛndāvana with so many men.
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The speaker understood that His journey to Vṛndāvana resembled a magician traveling with his show.
He clearly judged this manner of traveling to be not good.
He stated that no one should go to Vṛndāvana with so many men.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I giving more attention to outward display than to the purpose of a pilgrimage?
Consider one pilgrimage plan or wish today, and identify one unnecessary element of outward display to leave out.
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