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Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 14.81

The Lord’s Unprecedented Ecstatic Symptoms

“No one has witnessed such bodily changes elsewhere, nor has anyone read of them in the revealed scriptures. Yet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the supreme sannyāsī, exhibited these ecstatic symptoms.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 14.81, translation

What the purport teaches

  • No one has witnessed such bodily changes elsewhere.
  • Nor has anyone read of such changes in the revealed scriptures.
  • Yet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the supreme sannyāsī, exhibited these ecstatic symptoms.

Try this today

Read the verse slowly and note its two comparisons: what people have witnessed and what they have read.

Ask yourself

How does this verse deepen your appreciation of the uncommon nature of the Lord’s symptoms?

Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.

The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.

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