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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.55
এত কহি’ মহাপ্রভু মৌন করিলা ।
রামানন্দ-রায় শ্লোক পড়িতে লাগিলা ॥ ৫৫ ॥
eta kahi’ mahāprabhu mauna karilā
rāmānanda-rāya śloka paḍite lāgilā
After speaking in this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fell silent. Then Rāmānanda Rāya began to recite various verses.
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After describing His condition, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fell silent.
Rāmānanda Rāya then began reciting various verses.
The following verse explains that his recitation was from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and helped bring Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to external consciousness.
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 He could no longer see Kṛṣṇa, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu compared Himself to a yogī and described how that yogī was seeing Vṛndāvana. Sometimes all the transcendental ecstatic symptoms were manifest in Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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What do you notice about Rāmānanda Rāya’s response to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s silence?
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