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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.7
বায়ুব্যাধিচ্ছলে কৈল প্রেম পরকাশ ।
ভক্তগণ লঞা কৈল বিবিধ বিলাস ॥ ৭ ॥
vāyu-vyādhi-cchale kaila prema parakāśa
bhakta-gaṇa lañā kaila vividha vilāsa
In His youth the Lord exhibited His ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa on the plea of disturbances of the bodily airs. Accompanied by His confidential devotees, He enjoyed various pastimes in this way.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
In His youth, the Lord exhibited ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa on the plea of disturbances of the bodily airs. He enjoyed these pastimes with His confidential devotees.
The purport explains that, according to Āyur-vedic treatment, the physiological system is conducted by vāyu, pitta and kapha—air, bile and mucus.
In this Āyur-vedic account, disturbances involving bile, mucus and bodily air may produce fifty-nine varieties of disease. This provides the bodily explanation used as the plea for the Lord’s ecstatic expressions.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
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In this verse: “love of krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the verse distinguish the Lord’s ecstatic love from its apparent bodily explanation?
Reread the translation and note that ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa is what the Lord is exhibiting.
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