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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.230
এক দিন শ্রীনারদ দেখি’ নারায়ণ ।
ত্রিবেণী-স্নানে প্রয়াগ করিলা গমন ॥ ২৩০ ॥
eka dina śrī-nārada dekhi’ nārāyaṇa
triveṇī-snāne prayāga karilā gamana
“Once upon a time the great saint Nārada, after visiting Lord Nārāyaṇa in the Vaikuṇṭhas, went to Prayāga to bathe at the confluence of three rivers — the Ganges, Yamunā and Sarasvatī.
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Nārada is so liberated that he can visit Nārāyaṇa in the Vaikuṇṭha planets and then immediately come to Prayāga. There he bathes at the meeting of the Ganges, Yamunā and Sarasvatī, called tri-veṇī.
Material bodies restrict freedom of movement. In one's original spiritual body, one can move anywhere and everywhere without difficulty.
In the spiritual world, all planets and their inhabitants are composed of spiritual energy. Because there are no material impediments, everything there is said to be one.
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Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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:
In this regard, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu narrated a story about how the great sage Nārada converted a hunter into a great Vaiṣṇava, and how this was appreciated by Nārada’s friend Parvata Muni. Sanātana Gosvāmī then offered a prayer to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the glory of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Nārada’s freedom help me distinguish spiritual life from the limitations of a material body?
Write one sentence contrasting movement in a material body with movement in one's original spiritual body.
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