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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 4.30
জল নিতে স্ত্রীগণ তোমারে দেখি’ গেল ।
স্ত্রীসব দুগ্ধ দিয়া আমারে পাঠাইল ॥ ৩০ ॥
jala nite strī-gaṇa tomāre dekhi’ gela
strī-saba dugdha diyā āmāre pāṭhāila
“The women who come here to take water saw you, and they supplied Me with this milk and sent Me to you.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The women who came to take water had seen Mādhavendra Purī.
They supplied the boy with milk.
They sent Him to Mādhavendra Purī with that milk.
Selfless service and longing. Gopāla’s requests, Gopīnātha’s mercy, and Mādhavendra Purī’s devotion deepen the theme of longing.
The mood of Madhya 4 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:
In this way He reached the celebrated village of Remuṇā, where there is a Deity of Gopīnātha. There He narrated the story of Mādhavendra Purī, as He had heard it from His spiritual master, Īśvara Purī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 4
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