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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.147
গঙ্গাতীর-পথে সুখ জানাইহ তাঁরে ।
ভট্টাচার্য আসি’ তবে কহিল প্রভুরে ॥ ১৪৭ ॥
gaṅgā-tīra-pathe sukha jānāiha tāṅre
bhaṭṭācārya āsi’ tabe kahila prabhure
“Tell the Lord of the happiness you will feel in traveling via the banks of the Ganges.” Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya therefore submitted this prayer to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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The advice is to tell the Lord of the happiness that traveling along the banks of the Ganges would bring.
The proposed journey is presented as a source of happiness.
Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya follows this advice and submits the prayer to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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:
Some Pāṭhāna soldiers who were passing through saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and falsely concluded that the Lord’s associates, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya and others, had killed the Lord with a poison named dhuturā and were taking His wealth. Thus the soldiers arrested them.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What hope would you like to express honestly to the Lord?
Offer a brief prayer describing one hope and the happiness it would bring.
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