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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.58
‘পাবনাদি’ সব কুণ্ডে স্নান করিয়া ।
লোকেরে পুছিল, পর্বত-উপরে যাঞা ॥ ৫৮ ॥
‘pāvanādi’ saba kuṇḍe snāna kariyā
lokere puchila, parvata-upare yāñā
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bathed in all the celebrated lakes, beginning with Lake Pāvana. Thereafter He climbed a hill and spoke to the people.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bathed in all the celebrated lakes, beginning with Lake Pāvana.
The purport notes that Pāvana-sarovara is described in the Mathurā-māhātmya.
After bathing, He climbed a hill and spoke to the people.
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:
At Kālīya Lake, many people mistook a fisherman for Kṛṣṇa. When some respectable people came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they expressed their opinion that when one takes sannyāsa, he becomes Nārāyaṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What sequence of activities do you notice in Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s visit?
Recall the three actions in this verse: bathing in the lakes, climbing the hill, and speaking to the people.
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