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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 3.16
গুপ্তে তা-সবাকে আনি’ ঠাকুর নিত্যানন্দ ।
শিখাইল সবাকারে করিয়া প্রবন্ধ ॥ ১৬ ॥
gupte tā-sabāke āni’ ṭhākura nityānanda
śikhāilā sabākāre kariyā prabandha
Calling all the boys in confidence and telling a reasonable story, Nityānanda Prabhu instructed them as follows.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Nityānanda Prabhu called all the boys in confidence.
He told them a reasonable story.
He then gave them instructions; this verse introduces those instructions without stating them.
Reunion and heartbreaking parting. After sannyāsa, mother Śacī and the devotees reunite with Him before consenting to separation.
The mood of Madhya 3 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:
After accepting the sannyāsa order at Katwa, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu traveled continuously for three days in Rāḍha-deśa and, by the trick of Nityānanda Prabhu, eventually came to the western side of Śāntipura. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was induced to believe that the river Ganges was the Yamunā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 3
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