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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.18
তবে সপ্তপ্রহর ছিলা প্রভু ভাবাবেশে ।
যথা তথা ভক্তগণ দেখিল বিশেষে ॥ ১৮ ॥
tabe sapta-prahara chilā prabhu bhāvāveśe
yathā tathā bhakta-gaṇa dekhila viśeṣe
After this incident, the Lord remained in an ecstatic position for twenty-one hours, and all the devotees saw His specific pastimes.
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In Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s house, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu sat on Viṣṇu’s bed. The devotees worshiped Him with the Puruṣa-sūkta and offerings appropriate for Deity worship.
The Lord remained in ecstasy for seven praharas, or twenty-one hours. He showed that He is Kṛṣṇa, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead and source of all other incarnations.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu revealed the devotees’ private desires. This made them fully confident that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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The purport of CC Ādi 17.18 quotesBG 10.8
He took this opportunity to show the devotees that He is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, who is the source of all other incarnations, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (10.8): ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate.
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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:
The seventeenth chapter, as summarized by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes from His sixteenth year until the time He accepted the renounced order of life. Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has already vividly described these pastimes in the Caitanya-bhāgavata; therefore Kṛṣṇa dāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī describes them only briefly.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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