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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.56

প্রভুর গমন-রীতি পূর্বে যে লিখিল ।

সেইমত বৃন্দাবনে তাবৎ দেখিল ॥ ৫৬ ॥

prabhura gamana-rīti pūrve ye likhila

sei-mata vṛndāvane tāvat dekhila

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s touring Vṛndāvana has been previously described. In the same ecstatic way, He traveled all over Vṛndāvana.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Traveling Throughout Vṛndāvana in Ecstasy

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s touring Vṛndāvana had been described previously.

  2. 2

    He continued traveling in the same ecstatic way.

  3. 3

    His travels extended all over Vṛndāvana.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 18: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Visit to Śrī Vṛndāvana

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Seeing a great crowd in Mathurā, He moved His residence near Akrūra-ghāṭa, and from there He went every day to Vṛndāvana to see Kālīya-hrada, Dvādaśāditya-ghāṭa, Keśī-ghāṭa, Rāsa-sthalī, Cīra-ghāṭa and Āmli-talā. At Kālīya Lake, many people mistook a fisherman for Kṛṣṇa.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. prabhuraof Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  2. gamana-rītimethod of touring
  3. pūrveformerly
  4. yewhich
  5. likhilaI have written
  6. sei-matasimilarly
  7. vṛndāvaneat Vṛndāvana
  8. tāvat dekhilasaw all the places
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What stands out to me about the ecstatic way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu traveled?

Practice

Read the verse once more, giving special attention to the words “in the same ecstatic way.”

Live this todayTraveling Throughout Vṛndāvana in EcstasyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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