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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.283
পাছে সেই আচরিবা, যেই তোমার মন ।
আপন-ইচ্ছায় চল, রহ, — কে করে বারণ ॥” ২৮৩ ॥
pāche sei ācaribā, yei tomāra mana
āpana-icchāya cala, raha, — ke kare vāraṇa”
“After remaining here for four months, You will be free to do as You like. Actually, no one can stop You from going or remaining.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The request is for the Lord to remain for four months.
After that time, He will be free to do as He likes.
The speaker acknowledges that no one can stop Him from going or remaining.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I express my desire to the Lord while respecting His freedom?
Today, offer one prayer as a humble request rather than a demand.
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