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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.104
‘বৈষ্ণব’ দেখিয়া প্রভুর অর্ধবাহ্য হইল ।
স্বরূপ-গোসাঞিরে কিছু কহিতে লাগিল ॥ ১০৪ ॥
‘vaiṣṇava’ dekhiyā prabhura ardha-bāhya ha-ila
svarūpa-gosāñire kichu kahite lāgila
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw all the Vaiṣṇavas, He returned to partial external consciousness and spoke to Svarūpa Dāmodara.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw all the Vaiṣṇavas gathered around Him.
He returned to partial external consciousness. The text carefully describes this return as only partial.
He then spoke to Svarūpa Dāmodara, explaining in the following verse what He had been seeing.
Intense yearning. Darśana, dreams, and visions of Vraja bring overwhelming separation.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
As soon as He perceived this woman, however, His external consciousness immediately returned, and He saw Jagannātha, Baladeva and Subhadrā. Caitanya Mahāprabhu also saw Kṛṣṇa in a dream, and He was overwhelmed with ecstatic love.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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In this verse: “gathered”
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How does the word “partial” help me read the Lord’s condition more carefully?
Reread this verse slowly, noticing the sequence of seeing, returning to partial external consciousness and speaking.
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