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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.300
প্রাতঃকালে উঠি’ প্রভু দেখি’ হনুমান্ ।
তাঁরে নমস্করি’ প্রভু দক্ষিণে করিলা প্রয়াণ ॥ ৩০০ ॥
prātaḥ-kāle uṭhi’ prabhu dekhi’ hanumān
tāṅre namaskari’ prabhu dakṣiṇe karilā prayāṇa
After rising from bed the next morning, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited the local temple, where there was a deity of Hanumān. After offering him obeisances, the Lord departed for South India.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Hanumānjī is the eternal servant of Lord Rāmacandra and has been respectfully worshiped for many hundreds and thousands of years.
Temples of Hanumānjī are found in almost all the cities and towns of India. There is also a temple of Hanumān near Govindajī temple in Vṛndāvana.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited the local temple and offered obeisances to Hanumān before departing for South India. The Lord thus set the example of offering respects to Hanumānjī.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
He next described the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the transcendental mellows of love of God. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya then recited a verse of his own concerning the platform of ecstatic vision, technically called prema-vilāsa-vivarta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “servant”, “offered”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s example deepen my respect for Hanumānjī?
Offer a respectful bow today while remembering Hanumānjī as the eternal servant of Lord Rāmacandra.
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