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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.17
একদিন মহাপ্রভু করিয়াছেন শয়ন ।
কৃষ্ণ রাসলীলা করে, — দেখিলা স্বপন ॥ ১৭ ॥
eka-dina mahāprabhu kariyāchena śayana
kṛṣṇa rāsa-līlā kare, — dekhilā svapana
One day while He was resting, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu dreamed He saw Kṛṣṇa performing His rāsa dance.
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One day, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was resting.
In a dream, He saw Kṛṣṇa performing His rāsa dance.
The following verses describe the beauty and dancing He witnessed in that dream.
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:
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
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What draws your attention to this account of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s dream?
Read the translation slowly, pausing to remember Kṛṣṇa performing His rāsa dance.
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