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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.103
উঠি’ মহাপ্রভু বিস্মিত, ইতি উতি চায় ।
যে দেখিতে চায়, তাহা দেখিতে না পায় ॥ ১০৩ ॥
uṭhi’ mahāprabhu vismita, iti uti cāya
ye dekhite cāya, tāhā dekhite nā pāya
Astonished, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stood up and began looking here and there, trying to see something. But He could not catch sight of it.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stood up astonished and looked here and there.
He was trying to see something, but He could not catch sight of it.
Later in this passage, He explains that He had been seeing Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes and could no longer see them.
Intense yearning. Darśana, dreams, and visions of Vraja bring overwhelming separation.
The mood of Antya 14 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:
Once Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu mistook a sand dune known as Caṭaka-parvata for Govardhana Hill. As He ran toward it, He became stunned, and then the eight ecstatic transformations appeared in His body due to great love for Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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