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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 3.79
নিত্যানন্দ কহে — কৈলুঁ তিন উপবাস ।
আজি পারণা করিতে ছিল বড় আশ ॥ ৭৯ ॥
nityānanda kahe — kailuṅ tina upavāsa
āji pāraṇā karite chila baḍa āśa
Nityānanda Prabhu said, “I have undergone fasting for three days continuously. Today I had hoped to break My fast.”
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Nityānanda Prabhu said that He had been fasting.
His fast had continued for three days without interruption.
He said that He had hoped to break His fast that day.
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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