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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.181
“যাঁর ইচ্ছা, পাছে আইস আমারে দেখিতে ।
এবে আমি একা যামু ঝারিখণ্ড-পথে” ॥ ১৮১ ॥
“yāṅra icchā, pāche āisa āmāre dekhite
ebe āmi ekā yāmu jhārikhaṇḍa-pathe”
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “If you want to see Me, you may come later, but for the time being I shall go alone through the Jhārikhaṇḍa forest.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu told the devotees that they could come later if they wanted to see Him.
For the time being, He would go alone.
His route would take Him through the Jhārikhaṇḍa forest.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to Jagannātha Purī through the great forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa (Jharkhand) in central India. At the end of this chapter, Kavirāja Gosvāmī sums up the incidents of the madhya-līlā and instructs every living being to read this sublime book of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 25
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the invitation to come later shape your understanding of this farewell?
Write down both parts of the Lord’s instruction: the devotees could come later, and He would travel alone now.
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