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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 14.38
স্বপ্নাবেশে প্রেমে প্রভুর গর গর মন ।
বাহ্য হৈলে হয় — যেন হারাইল ধন ॥ ৩৮ ॥
svapnāveśe preme prabhura gara gara mana
bāhya haile haya — yena hārāila dhana
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu dreamed of the rāsa dance, He was fully absorbed in transcendental bliss, but when His dream broke, He thought He had lost a precious jewel.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu dreamed of the rāsa dance.
During the dream, He was fully absorbed in transcendental bliss.
When the dream broke, He felt that He had lost a precious jewel. The comparison conveys how precious that experience was to Him.
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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Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
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In this verse: “rāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the contrast between bliss and loss reveal about His absorption in Kṛṣṇa?
Reread the verse and note its two contrasting feelings: transcendental bliss and the loss of a precious jewel.
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