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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 14: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Feelings of Separation from Kṛṣṇa

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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.15

দিব্যোন্মাদে ঐছে হয়, কি ইহা বিস্ময় ? অধিরূঢ়-ভাবে দিব্যোন্মাদ-প্রলাপ হয় ॥ ১৫ ॥

divyonmāde aiche haya, ki ihā vismaya?

adhirūḍha-bhāve divyonmāda-pralāpa haya

Translation

Such is the state of transcendental madness. Why is it difficult to understand? When one is highly elevated in love of Kṛṣṇa, he becomes transcendentally mad and talks like a madman.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Exalted Love Brings Transcendental Madness

1
The verse describes the state of transcendental madness.
2
It connects this state with being highly elevated in love of Kṛṣṇa.
3
In that state, a person talks like a madman. The explanation given is exalted love of Kṛṣṇa.

How it feels

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

Antya 14: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Feelings of Separation from Kṛṣṇa

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa resulted in highly elevated transcendental madness. When He was standing near the Garuḍa-stambha and praying to Lord Jagannātha, a woman from Orissa put her foot on the Lord’s shoulder in her great eagerness to see Lord Jagannātha.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

divya-unmādein transcendental madness
aichesuch
hayais
ki ihā vismayawhat is the wonder
adhirūḍha-bhāvein highly elevated love of Kṛṣṇa
divya-unmādain transcendental madness
pralāpatalking
hayathere is

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

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 krsna”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “madness”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the verse’s explanation of exalted love affect your understanding of this unusual speech?

Practice

Note beside the phrase “transcendentally mad” the explanation supplied here: “highly elevated in love of Kṛṣṇa.”

Live this todayExalted Love Brings Transcendental MadnessThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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