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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.10
বারাণসী-বাস আমার হয় সর্বকালে ।
সর্বকাল দুঃখ পাব, ইহা না করিলে ॥” ১০ ॥
vārāṇasī-vāsa āmāra haya sarva-kāle
sarva-kāla duḥkha pāba, ihā nā karile”
“I shall have to reside at Vārāṇasī the rest of my life. If I do not try to carry out this plan, I shall certainly continue to suffer mental depression.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The brāhmaṇa expected to live in Vārāṇasī for the rest of his life.
He felt that failing to try his plan would leave him continuing to suffer mental depression.
His plan was to gather the sannyāsīs so they could see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s personal characteristics and become His devotees.
Reconciliation and broad mercy. Opponents turn toward bhakti; the Lord returns to Purī and embraces devotees.
The mood of Madhya 25 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 always very happy to hear the glories of the Lord, and it was by his arrangement that all the sannyāsīs of Vārāṇasī became devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He invited all the sannyāsīs to his house to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and this incident has been described in the seventh chapter of the Ādi-līlā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 25
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