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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 3.32
তুমি ত’ আচার্য গোসাঞি, এথা কেনে আইলা ।
আমি বৃন্দাবনে, তুমি কেমতে জানিলা ॥ ৩২ ॥
tumi ta’ ācārya-gosāñi, ethā kene āilā
āmi vṛndāvane, tumi ke-mate jānilā
Still in His ecstasy, the Lord asked Advaita Ācārya, “Why did You come here? How did You know that I was in Vṛndāvana?”
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The Lord was still in His ecstasy when He spoke to Advaita Ācārya.
He asked Advaita Ācārya why He had come there.
He also asked how Advaita Ācārya knew that He was in Vṛndāvana.
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:
Advaita Prabhu asked Him to take His bath in the Ganges and took Him to His (Advaita’s) house. There all the Navadvīpa devotees, along with mother Śacīdevī, came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 3
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do the Lord’s questions reveal about where He understood Himself to be?
Reread the Lord’s two questions, noticing how they express His experience of Vṛndāvana.
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