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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.5
প্রভুর বিরহোন্মাদ-ভাব গম্ভীর ।
বুঝিতে না পারে কেহ, যদ্যপি হয় ‘ধীর’ ॥ ৫ ॥
prabhura virahonmāda-bhāva gambhīra
bujhite nā pāre keha, yadyapi haya ‘dhīra’
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s emotion of transcendental madness in separation from Kṛṣṇa is very deep and mysterious. Even though one is very advanced and learned, he cannot understand it.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu experiences transcendental madness in separation from Kṛṣṇa.
This emotion is very deep and mysterious.
Even someone very advanced and learned cannot understand it.
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
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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: “separation”, “madness”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I approach this mysterious subject without assuming that learning alone will explain it?
Pause after reading and acknowledge one thing about His feelings of separation that you do not understand.
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