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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.87
কিন্তু আজি এক মুঞি ‘স্বপ্ন’ দেখিনু ।
সেই স্বপ্ন পরতেক তোমা আসি’ পাইনু ॥ ৮৭ ॥
kintu āji eka muñi ‘svapna’ dekhinu
sei svapna parateka tomā āsi’ pāinu
“Today I have had a dream, and according to that dream I have come here and found You.”
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Kṛṣṇadāsa said that he had had a dream that day.
He explained that he had come there according to that dream.
Upon coming, he had found the Lord.
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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How does Kṛṣṇadāsa connect his dream with his arrival?
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