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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.102
‘বাতুল’ না হইও, ঘরে রহত বসিয়া ।
‘কৃষ্ণ’ দরশন করিহ কালি রাত্র্যে যাঞা ॥” ১০২ ॥
‘vātula’ nā ha-io, ghare rahata vasiyā
‘kṛṣṇa’ daraśana kariha kāli rātrye yāñā”
“Do not become mad. Simply sit down here, and tomorrow night you will go see Kṛṣṇa.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu told His listener not to become mad.
He instructed him simply to sit down there.
He said that tomorrow night he would go see Kṛṣṇa, directing him to wait rather than act immediately.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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 this way, their Kṛṣṇa consciousness was awakened, and they could understand that a sannyāsī is simply a living entity and not the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took His bath at Akrūra-ghāṭa, He submerged Himself in the water for a long time.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I accept an instruction to wait when I feel eager to act?
When you feel an impatient urge today, sit quietly for a moment before acting.
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