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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.278
রায় কহে, — প্ৰভু তুমি ছাড় ভারিভূরি ।
মোর আগে নিজরূপ না করিহ চুরি ॥ ২৭৮ ॥
rāya kahe, — prabhu tumi chāḍa bhāri-bhūri
mora āge nija-rūpa nā kariha curi
Rāmānanda Rāya replied, “My dear Lord, please give up all these serious talks. Please do not conceal Your real form from me.”
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Rāmānanda Rāya asks the Lord to give up these serious talks.
He directly requests that the Lord not conceal His real form.
His appeal is personal: he wants the Lord to reveal Himself to him.
Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 8 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:
Gradually Rāmānanda Rāya could understand the position of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited His real form, Rāmānanda Rāya fell unconscious. After some days, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Rāmānanda Rāya to retire from government service and come to Jagannātha Purī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
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