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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 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
Antya 14.15Antya 14.17

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.16

এতস্য মোহনাখ্যস্য গতিং কামপ্যুপেয়ুষঃ ।

ভ্রমাভা কাপি বৈচিত্রী দিব্যোন্মাদ ইতীর্যতে ।

উদ্ঘূর্ণা-চিত্রজল্পাদ্যাস্তদ্ভেদা বহবৌ মতাঃ ॥ ১৬ ॥

etasya mohanākhyasya

gatiṁ kām apy upeyuṣaḥ

bhramābhā kāpi vaicitrī

divyonmāda itīryate

udghūrṇā-citra-jalpādyās

tad-bhedā bahavo matāḥ

Translation

“When the ecstatic emotion of enchantment gradually progresses, it becomes similar to bewilderment. Then one reaches the stage of astonishment [vaicitrī], which awakens transcendental madness. Udghūrṇā and citra-jalpa are two among the many divisions of transcendental madness.”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Progression of Ecstatic Emotion

  1. 1

    As the ecstatic emotion of enchantment gradually progresses, it becomes similar to bewilderment.

  2. 2

    Then comes astonishment, called vaicitrī, which awakens transcendental madness.

  3. 3

    Udghūrṇā and citra-jalpa are two among its many divisions. The purport identifies this passage as a quotation from the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi.

Key points from the purport
  • This is a quotation from the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Sthāyibhāva-prakaraṇa 174).

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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

Further reading

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.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. etasyaof this
  2. mohana-ākhyasyamood known as mohana, or enchanting
  3. gatimprogress
  4. kām apiinexplicable
  5. upeyuṣaḥhaving obtained
  6. bhrama-ābhāresembling bewilderment
  7. kā apisome
  8. vaicitrīcondition bringing about astonishment
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does this gradual progression help you notice about the description of ecstatic emotion?

Practice

Write the progression given here: enchantment, similarity to bewilderment, astonishment, and transcendental madness.

Live this todayThe Progression of Ecstatic EmotionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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