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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.68
মুখে লালা-ফেন প্রভুর উত্তান-নয়ান ।
দেখিয়া সকল ভক্তের দেহ ছাড়ে প্রাণ ॥ ৬৮ ॥
mukhe lālā-phena prabhura uttāna-nayāna
dekhiyā sakala bhaktera deha chāḍe prāṇa
They almost died when they saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu with His mouth full of saliva and foam and His eyes turned upward.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mouth was full of saliva and foam.
His eyes were turned upward. Seeing Him in this condition, the devotees almost died.
The next verse describes their response: they began chanting Kṛṣṇa’s holy name loudly into His ear.
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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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “holy name”
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How does their response help you understand the depth of the devotees’ distress?
Read this verse together with the next, noticing how the devotees move from distress to chanting.
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