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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 16: The Lord’s Attempt to Go to Vṛndāvana
Madhya 16.58Madhya 16.60

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.59

চাতুর্মাস্য-অন্তে পুনঃ নিত্যানন্দে লঞা ।

কিবা যুক্তি করে নিত্য নিভৃতে বসিয়া ॥ ৫৯ ॥

cāturmāsya-ante punaḥ nityānande lañā

kibā yukti kare nitya nibhṛte vasiyā

Translation

At the end of the four-month Cāturmāsya period, Caitanya Mahāprabhu again consulted with Nityānanda Prabhu daily in a solitary place. No one could understand what Their consultation was about.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Some Consultations Remain Beyond Our Understanding

  1. 1

    At the end of the four-month Cāturmāsya period, Caitanya Mahāprabhu again consulted with Nityānanda Prabhu.

  2. 2

    They met daily in a solitary place.

  3. 3

    No one could understand what Their consultation was about. The translation does not reveal its contents.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 16: The Lord’s Attempt to Go to Vṛndāvana

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

In that year also, the Guṇḍicā temple was cleansed, and when the Cāturmāsya period was over, all the devotees returned to their homes in Bengal. Caitanya Mahāprabhu forbade Nityānanda to visit Nīlācala every year.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. cāturmāsya-anteat the end of Cāturmāsya
  2. punaḥagain
  3. nityānandeŚrī Nityānanda Prabhu
  4. lañātaking into confidence
  5. kibāwhat
  6. yukti kareThey consult
  7. nityadaily
  8. nibhṛtein a solitary place
  9. vasiyāsitting
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Can I accept that some exchanges described here remain beyond my understanding?

Practice

Reread the translation today and distinguish what it reveals from what it leaves unknown.

Live this todaySome Consultations Remain Beyond Our UnderstandingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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