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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.82
শাস্ত্রলোকাতীত যেই যেই ভাব হয় ।
ইতর-লোকের তাতে না হয় নিশ্চয় ॥ ৮২ ॥
śāstra-lokātīta yei yei bhāva haya
itara-lokera tāte nā haya niścaya
These ecstasies are not described in the śāstras, and they are inconceivable to common men. Therefore people in general do not believe in them.
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These ecstasies are not described in the śāstras.
They are inconceivable to common people. Ordinary understanding cannot grasp them.
People in general therefore do not believe in them. The narrator nevertheless expresses full belief in the following verse.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do I respond when an account of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exceeds my understanding?
Read this translation slowly and distinguish not understanding something from disbelieving it.
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