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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.43
প্রভুর মহিমা দেখি’ লোকে চমৎকার ।
প্রয়াগে প্রভুর লীলা নারি বর্ণিবার ॥ ৪৩ ॥
prabhura mahimā dekhi’ loke camatkāra
prayāge prabhura līlā nāri varṇibāra
Everyone was astounded to see the greatness of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Indeed, I cannot properly describe the pastimes of the Lord at Prayāga.
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Everyone was astounded to see the greatness of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
The verse describes the response to the Lord’s pastimes at Prayāga.
The narrator acknowledges that he cannot properly describe those pastimes.
Empowerment and hope. The seed of bhakti is received, planted, and watered; intimate realization becomes transmissible.
The mood of Madhya 19 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:
He was informed that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was going to Vṛndāvana from Jagannātha Purī through the forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa (Jharkhand); therefore he sent two people to Jagannātha Purī to find out when the Lord would leave for Vṛndāvana. In this way Rūpa Gosvāmī retired, but Sanātana Gosvāmī told the Nawab that he was sick and could not attend to his work.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this acknowledgment of the limits of description invite you to reflect on?
Reread this verse slowly, pausing at the narrator’s admission that he cannot properly describe the Lord’s pastimes.
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