228 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya-lila, Ch. 11

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, What have you done, My dear Raya?
Why did you not first see Lord Jagannatha and then come here? Why have you
come here first?”

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raya kahe, carana—ratha, hrdaya——sarathi
yahan lana yaya, tahan yaya jiva-rathi

SYNONYMS

raya kahe—Ramananda Raya replied; carana—the legs; ratha—chariot;
hrdaya—the heart; sdrathi—chariot driver; yahan—wherever; /afid—taking;
yaya—goes; tahan—there; yaya—goes; jiva-rathi—the living entity on the
chariot.
TRANSLATION

Ramananda Raya said, “The legs are like the chariot, and the heart is like
the charioteer. Wherever the heart takes the living entity, the living entity is
obliged to go.”

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita (18.61) Lord Krsna explains:

isvarah sarva-bhitanam
hrd-dese ‘rjuna tisthati

bhramayan sarva-bhatani
yantraridhdani mayaya

“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the
wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine made of material
energy.”

Thus the living entity wanders within this universe riding upon a chariot (the
body) bestowed by material nature. A similar explanation is given in the Katha
Upanisad (1.3.3,4):

atmanam rathinam viddhi
Sariram ratham eva tu
buddhim tu sarathirh viddhi

manah pragraham eva ca
