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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.83
তার মধ্যে যে যে বর্ষে আছয়ে বিশেষ ।
বিস্তারিয়া আগে তাহা কহিব নিঃশেষ ॥ ৮৩ ॥
tāra madhye ye ye varṣe āchaye viśeṣa
vistāriyā āge tāhā kahiba niḥśeṣa
Whatever happened during those years that is worth noting shall be described later.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The account refers to events that happened during those years.
Whatever is worth noting will be described.
Those descriptions are reserved for later in the account.
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:
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.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 read patiently when a fuller account is promised later?
Note that further details are promised, and continue reading without filling in what has not yet been described.
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