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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.11
তাতে বিশ্বাস করি’ শুন ভাবের বর্ণন ।
হইবে ভাবের জ্ঞান, পাইবা প্রেমধন ॥ ১১ ॥
tāte viśvāsa kari’ śuna bhāvera varṇana
ha-ibe bhāvera jñāna, pāibā prema-dhana
Please hear faithfully this description of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstatic emotions. Thus you will come to know of His ecstatic love, and ultimately you will achieve love of Godhead.
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The reader is asked to hear faithfully about Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstatic emotions.
Through this hearing, one comes to know His ecstatic love.
The stated ultimate result of faithful hearing is love of Godhead.
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:
When Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the temple of Lord Jagannātha, He was absorbed in ecstatic love and saw only Kṛṣṇa. As soon as He perceived this woman, however, His external consciousness immediately returned, and He saw Jagannātha, Baladeva and Subhadrā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”, “ecstatic love”
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