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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.102
প্রভু–সঙ্গে নৃত্য করে পরম উল্লাসে ।
প্রভু তারে প্রেম দিল, প্রেমরসে ভাসে ॥ ১০২ ॥
prabhu-saṅge nṛtya kare parama ullāse
prabhu tāre prema dila, prema-rase bhāse
He danced with the Lord because he was favored by love of Kṛṣṇa. Thus he flowed in the mellows of love of Godhead.
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He danced with the Lord.
He could dance with the Lord because he was favored by love of Kṛṣṇa.
Thus he flowed in the mellows of love of Godhead.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 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:
Finally, the chapter shows that the same son of mother Yaśodā, Lord Kṛṣṇa, tasted four transcendental mellows of devotional service in His form of Śacīnandana, the son of mother Śacī. To understand Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s ecstatic love for Him, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”, “love of krsna”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “favored”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellows”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this verse turn my attention from the outward dance to love of Kṛṣṇa?
Pause today to reflect on the phrase “favored by love of Kṛṣṇa.”
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