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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 17.193
মধুবন, তাল, কুমুদ, বহুলা-বন গেলা ।
তাহাঁ তাহাঁ স্নান করি’ প্রেমাবিষ্ট হৈলা ॥ ১৯৩ ॥
madhu-vana, tāla, kumuda, bahulā-vana gelā
tāhāṅ tāhāṅ snāna kari’ premāviṣṭa hailā
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited the different forests, including Madhuvana, Tālavana, Kumudavana and Bahulāvana. Wherever He went, He took His bath with great ecstatic love.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The word vana means “forest.” Vṛndāvana is named for the profuse growth of Śrīmatī Vṛndādevī (Tulasīdevī), and its vegetation is very thick and green.
There are twelve forests in the Vṛndāvana area: five on the eastern side of the Yamunā and seven on the western side.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited forests including Madhuvana, Tālavana, Kumudavana and Bahulāvana. Wherever He went, He bathed with great ecstatic love.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Wonder and contagious joy. Even forest animals chant; nature seems drawn into the saṅkīrtana movement.
The mood of Madhya 17 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:
Thereafter the Lord visited the twelve forests of Vṛndāvana and was filled with great ecstatic love. As He toured the Vṛndāvana forests, He heard the chirping of parrots and other birds.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 17
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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”, “yamunā”
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the description of the Lord’s ecstatic love shape your reading of His forest visits?
Make two short lists of the forests in the purport: those east of the Yamunā and those west of it.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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