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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.86
রাজপুত-জাতি মুঞি, ও-পারে মোর ঘর ।
মোর ইচ্ছা হয় — ‘হঙ বৈষ্ণব-কিঙ্কর’ ॥ ৮৬ ॥
rājaputa-jāti muñi, o-pāre mora ghara
mora icchā haya — ‘haṅa vaiṣṇava-kiṅkara’
“I belong to the Rājaputa caste, and my home is just on the other side of the river Yamunā. But I wish to be the servant of a Vaiṣṇava.
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Kṛṣṇadāsa said that he belonged to the Rājaputa caste.
He explained that his home was just across the river Yamunā.
He expressed his wish to be the servant of a Vaiṣṇava.
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
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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: “yamunā”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “servant”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I share Kṛṣṇadāsa’s wish to serve a Vaiṣṇava?
Offer one small act of help to a Vaiṣṇava today.
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