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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.118
এই ত’ কহিলুঁ প্রভুর দিব্যোন্মাদ-ভাব ।
ব্রহ্মাও কহিতে নারে যাহার প্রভাব ॥ ১১৮ ॥
ei ta’ kahiluṅ prabhura divyonmāda-bhāva
brahmāo kahite nāre yāhāra prabhāva
Thus I have described the transcendental ecstatic emotions of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Even Lord Brahmā cannot describe their influence.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author identifies what he has described as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s transcendental ecstatic emotions.
Even Lord Brahmā cannot describe the influence of these emotions.
The account therefore acknowledges a depth that words cannot fully convey.
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:
As He ran toward it, He became stunned, and then the eight ecstatic transformations appeared in His body due to great love for Kṛṣṇa. At that time all the devotees chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra to pacify Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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