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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.161
এই শ্লোকের অর্থ প্রভু ‘একষষ্টি’ প্রকার ।
করিয়াছেন, যাহা শুনি’ লোকে চমৎকার ॥ ১৬১ ॥
ei ślokera artha prabhu ‘ekaṣaṣṭi’ prakāra
kariyāchena, yāhā śuni’ loke camatkāra
The Maharashtriyan brāhmaṇa stated that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had already explained that verse in sixty-one ways. Everyone was astonished to hear this.
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The Maharashtriyan brāhmaṇa reported that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had already explained the ātmārāma verse.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had explained that one verse in sixty-one ways.
Everyone was astonished to hear this.
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:
A Maharashtriyan brāhmaṇa who was living in Benares was a great devotee of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 25
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