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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.60
আচার্য-গোসাঞি প্ৰভুকে কহে ঠারে-ঠোরে ।
আচার্য তর্জা পড়ে, কেহ বুঝিতে না পারে ॥ ৬০ ॥
ācārya-gosāñi prabhuke kahe ṭhāre-ṭhore
ācārya tarjā paḍe, keha bujhite nā pāre
Then Śrīla Advaita Ācārya said something to Caitanya Mahāprabhu through gestures and read some poetic passages, which no one understood.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīla Advaita Ācārya communicated something to Caitanya Mahāprabhu through gestures.
He also read some poetic passages.
No one understood these gestures and passages. Their meaning is not explained in this translation.
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:
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of this chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to go to Vṛndāvana, Rāmānanda Rāya and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya indirectly presented many obstructions.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.
How can I read attentively without inventing a meaning the text does not give?
Note the two ways Advaita Ācārya communicated, without guessing what He meant.
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