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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 14: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Feelings of Separation from Kṛṣṇa
Antya 14.80Antya 14.82

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.81

লোকে নাহি দেখে ঐছে, শাস্ত্রে নাহি শুনি ।

হেন ভাব ব্যক্ত করে ন্যাসি-চূড়ামণি ॥ ৮১ ॥

loke nāhi dekhi aiche, śāstre nāhi śuni

hena bhāva vyakta kare nyāsi-cūḍāmaṇi

Translation

No one has witnessed such bodily changes elsewhere, nor has anyone read of them in the revealed scriptures. Yet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the supreme sannyāsī, exhibited these ecstatic symptoms.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord’s Unprecedented Ecstatic Symptoms

  1. 1

    No one has witnessed such bodily changes elsewhere.

  2. 2

    Nor has anyone read of such changes in the revealed scriptures.

  3. 3

    Yet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the supreme sannyāsī, exhibited these ecstatic symptoms.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 14: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Feelings of Separation from Kṛṣṇa

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Sometimes all the transcendental ecstatic symptoms were manifest in Him. One night, Govinda and Svarūpa Dāmodara noticed that although the three doors to the Lord’s room were closed and locked, the Lord was not present inside.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. lokeamong people
  2. nāhi dekhiwe do not see
  3. aichesuch
  4. śāstrein scripture
  5. nāhi śuniwe do not hear
  6. henasuch
  7. bhāvaemotions
  8. vyakta kareexhibits
  9. nyāsi-cūḍāmaṇithe supreme sannyāsī.
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this verse deepen your appreciation of the uncommon nature of the Lord’s symptoms?

Practice

Read the verse slowly and note its two comparisons: what people have witnessed and what they have read.

Live this todayThe Lord’s Unprecedented Ecstatic SymptomsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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