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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.116
নিত্যানন্দ–গোসাঞি প্রভুর আবেশ জানিল ।
গঙ্গাজল–পাত্র আনি’ সম্মুখে ধরিল ॥ ১১৬ ॥
nityānanda-gosāñi prabhura āveśa jānila
gaṅgā-jala-pātra āni’ sammukhe dharila
Nityānanda Prabhu Gosāñi, understanding the ecstatic mood of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, brought a pot of Ganges water as a token and put it before Him.
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Nityānanda Prabhu Gosāñi understood the ecstatic mood of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
He brought a pot of Ganges water as a token.
He placed the pot before the Lord, responding to His mood.
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:
As Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Kṛṣṇa Himself assumed the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī to taste Her ecstatic situation. No one else could do this.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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