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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.278
গদাধরে ছাড়ি’ গেনু, ইঁহো দুঃখ পাইল ।
সেই হেতু বৃন্দাবন যাইতে নারিল ॥” ২৭৮ ॥
gadādhare chāḍi’ genu, iṅho duḥkha pāila
sei hetu vṛndāvana yāite nārila
“I left Gadādhara Paṇḍita here, and he became very unhappy. For this reason I could not go to Vṛndāvana.”
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The speaker had left Gadādhara Paṇḍita behind.
Gadādhara Paṇḍita became very unhappy.
The speaker gave this unhappiness as the reason He could not go to Vṛndāvana.
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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How do your plans take account of the unhappiness they may cause others?
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