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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.109
প্রভু কহে, — ‘কাহাঁ পাইলা কৃষ্ণ দরশন ?’
লোক কহে, — ‘সন্ন্যাসী তুমি জঙ্গম-নারায়ণ ॥ ১০৯ ॥
prabhu kahe, — ‘kāhāṅ pāilā kṛṣṇa daraśana?’
loka kahe, — ‘sannyāsī tumi jaṅgama-nārāyaṇa
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then asked them, “Where have you seen Kṛṣṇa directly?”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asks the people where they have seen Kṛṣṇa directly.
They reply by addressing Him as a sannyāsī, a renunciant.
Because He is a sannyāsī, they call Him a moving Nārāyaṇa, or jaṅgama-nārāyaṇa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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.
Do I distinguish what I have directly seen from what I infer from someone’s position?
Choose one statement you made today and ask whether it came from direct observation or inference.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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