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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.4
এইমত মহাপ্রভু রাত্রি-দিবসে ।
আত্মস্ফূর্তি নাহি কৃষ্ণভাবাবেশে ॥ ৪ ॥
ei-mata mahāprabhu rātri-divase
ātma-sphūrti nāhi kṛṣṇa-bhāvāveśe
Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu forgot Himself throughout the entire day and night, being merged in an ocean of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was merged in an ocean of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
His absorption continued throughout the entire day and night.
In that love, He forgot Himself.
Absorbed searching. The Lord lives the gopīs’ search for Kṛṣṇa with ecstatic transformations.
The mood of Antya 15 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:
After seeing the upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once more began to feel ecstatic emotions. When He saw the garden on the beach by the sea, He again thought that He was in Vṛndāvana, and when He began to think of Kṛṣṇa engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “love for krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the phrase “throughout the entire day and night” reveal about His absorption?
Spend one quiet minute today reflecting on Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s uninterrupted love for Kṛṣṇa.
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