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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 3.21
প্রভু লয়ে যাব আমি তাঁহার মন্দিরে ।
সাবধানে রহেন যেন নৌকা লঞা তীরে ॥ ২১ ॥
prabhu laye yāba āmi tāṅhāra mandire
sāvadhāne rahena yena naukā lañā tīre
Śrī Nityānanda Gosvāmī told him, “I shall take Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to the bank of the Ganges at Śāntipura, and Advaita Ācārya should carefully stay there on shore with a boat.
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Śrī Nityānanda Gosvāmī said He would take Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to the bank of the Ganges at Śāntipura.
Advaita Ācārya was to stay there on the shore.
He was asked to wait carefully with a boat.
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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What does the instruction to stay carefully with a boat help you notice about this preparation?
Write down the three details of the arrangement: the place, the person waiting, and the boat.
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