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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.63
প্রভু কহে, — ‘মন্দির ভিতরে না যাইব ।
গরুড়ের পাশে রহি’ দর্শন করিব ॥’ ৬৩ ॥
prabhu kahe, — ‘mandira bhitare nā yāiba
garuḍera pāśe rahi’ darśana kariba’
The Lord said, “I shall never enter the temple but shall always view the Lord from the side of the Garuḍa-stambha.”
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The Lord says that He will never enter the temple.
He nevertheless resolves always to view the Lord.
He chooses the side of the Garuḍa-stambha as the place from which to view Him.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
The mood of Madhya 6 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:
Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu and other devotees then visited the Jagannātha temple, and when they came back to the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to external consciousness. Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya received everyone and distributed mahā-prasādam with great care.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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