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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.221
দক্ষিণ যাইতে যৈছে শক্তি প্রকাশিলা ।
সেইমত পশ্চিম দেশ, প্রেমে ভাসাইলা ॥ ২২১ ॥
dakṣiṇa yāite yaiche śakti prakāśilā
sei-mata paścima deśa, preme bhāsāilā
Just as the Lord inundated South India on His tour there, He also inundated the western part of the country with love of Godhead.
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Just as the Lord inundated South India, He also inundated the western part of the country with love of Godhead.
According to some opinions, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited Kurukṣetra while traveling from Vṛndāvana to Prayāga.
Near the Bhadra-kālī temple in Kurukṣetra is a temple containing the Deity of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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:
While stopping near a village on the way to Prayāga, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fainted in ecstatic love. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “love of godhead”
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to you about love of Godhead spreading across these regions?
Reread the translation today and reflect for a moment on the words “love of Godhead.”
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