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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.226
আদ্যোপান্ত চৈতন্যলীলা — ‘অলৌকিক’ জান’ ।
শ্রদ্ধা করি’ শুন ইহা, ‘সত্য’ করি’ মান’ ॥ ২২৬ ॥
ādyopānta caitanya-līlā — ‘alaukika’ jāna’
śraddhā kari’ śuna ihā, ‘satya’ kari’ māna’
From beginning to end the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are uncommon. Just hear them with faith and accept them as true and correct.
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The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are uncommon from beginning to end.
The reader is invited to hear these pastimes with faith.
The teaching is to accept these pastimes as true and correct.
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:
The same village today is known as the village of Pāṭhāna Vaiṣṇavas. After bathing in the Ganges at Soro, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu arrived at Prayāga, at the confluence of three rivers — the Ganges, Yamunā and Sarasvatī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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