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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 3.22
তবে নবদ্বীপে তুমি করিহ গমন ।
শচী-সহ লঞা আইস সব ভক্তগণ ॥ ২২ ॥
tabe navadvīpe tumi kariha gamana
śacī-saha lañā āisa saba bhakta-gaṇa
“After that,” Nityānanda Prabhu continued, “I shall go to Advaita Ācārya’s house, and you should go to Navadvīpa and return with mother Śacī and all the other devotees.”
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Nityānanda Prabhu said that afterward He would go to Advaita Ācārya’s house.
He instructed His listener to go to Navadvīpa.
The listener was to return with mother Śacī and all the other devotees.
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:
There all the Navadvīpa devotees, along with mother Śacīdevī, came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. This house was located at Śāntipura.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 3
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