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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.174
পরমানন্দ পুরী তবে চলিলা নীলাচলে ।
মহাপ্ৰভু চলি চলি আইলা শ্রীশৈলে ॥ ১৭৪ ॥
paramānanda purī tabe calilā nīlācale
mahāprabhu cali cali āilā śrī-śaile
Thus Paramānanda Purī started for Jagannātha Purī, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu began walking toward Śrī Śaila.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Paramānanda Purī started for Jagannātha Purī, while Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu walked toward Śrī Śaila.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura remarks that it is not clearly understood which Śrī Śaila Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī indicates.
The purport distinguishes this place from Śrī Śaila in the district of Dhārwād, south of Belgaum, where the Mallikārjuna temple stands. It is said that Lord Śiva lived on that hill with Devī, and Lord Brahmā lived there with all the demigods.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Wonder and inclusion. Meetings across sacred places display the broad reach of devotional mercy.
The mood of Madhya 9 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:
After leaving Śrī Raṅga, Caitanya Mahāprabhu reached Ṛṣabha-parvata, where He met Paramānanda Purī, who later arrived at Jagannātha Purī. Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then proceeded farther, arriving at Setubandha Rāmeśvara.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 9
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can you accept that a detail about a sacred place may remain uncertain?
Write down that the identity of Śrī Śaila here is uncertain, without trying to settle it.
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