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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.274
বৃন্দাবন যাব কাহাঁ ‘একাকী’ হঞা !
সৈন্য সঙ্গে চলিয়াছি ঢাক বাজাঞা ! ২৭৪ ॥
vṛndāvana yāba kāhāṅ ‘ekākī’ hañā!
sainya saṅge caliyāchi ḍhāka bājāñā!
“I thought, ‘Instead of going to Vṛndāvana alone, I am going with soldiers and the beating of drums.’
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The speaker reflected on going to Vṛndāvana alone.
Instead, He saw Himself going with soldiers and the beating of drums.
His thought brought out the contrast between solitary travel and a grand procession.
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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Where has something I intended to keep simple become unnecessarily elaborate?
Choose one plan today and remove one unnecessary complication.
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