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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.43
দেখিতে উৎকণ্ঠা হয়, না চড়ে গোবর্ধনে ।
কোন ছলে গোপাল আসি’ উতরে আপনে ॥ ৪৩ ॥
dekhite utkaṇṭhā haya, nā caḍe govardhane
kona chale gopāla āsi’ utare āpane
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very eager to see Gopāla, but He did not want to climb Govardhana Hill. Therefore by some trick the Gopāla Deity personally descended.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very eager to see Gopāla.
Yet He did not want to climb Govardhana Hill.
Therefore, by some trick, the Gopāla Deity personally descended.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had no desire to climb Govardhana Hill because the hill is worshiped as Kṛṣṇa. The Gopāla Deity could understand the mind of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; therefore on the plea of being attacked by Muslims, Gopāla transferred Himself to the village of Gāṅṭhuli-grāma.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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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: “govardhana”
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What touches you about Gopāla personally descending when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wished to see Him?
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