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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.21
মুকুন্দ কহে, — প্রভুর ইহাঁ হৈল আগমনে ।
আমি-সব আসিয়াছি মহাপ্রভুর সনে ॥ ২১ ॥
mukunda kahe, — prabhura ihāṅ haila āgamane
āmi-saba āsiyāchi mahāprabhura sane
Mukunda Datta replied, “The Lord has already arrived here. We have come with Him.”
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Mukunda Datta replied with news of the Lord.
He said that the Lord had already arrived there.
Mukunda Datta explained, “We have come with Him.”
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Meanwhile, Gopīnātha Ācārya, the brother-in-law of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, met Mukunda Datta and talked to him about Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s acceptance of sannyāsa and His journey to Jagannātha Purī. After hearing about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s fainting and His being carried to the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, people crowded there to see the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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