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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.85
স্বরূপ-গোসাঞি যবে এই পদ গাহিলা ।
উঠি’ প্রেমাবেশে প্রভু নাচিতে লাগিলা ॥ ৮৫ ॥
svarūpa-gosāñi yabe ei pada gāhilā
uṭhi’ premāveśe prabhu nācite lāgilā
When Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī sang this special song, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately got up and began to dance in ecstatic love.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī sang the special song about remembering Kṛṣṇa.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately got up upon hearing it.
He began to dance in ecstatic love.
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:
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited a verse from the Gīta-govinda just suitable to the Lord’s emotions. Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on.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: “ecstatic love”
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What strikes me about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s immediate response to this song?
Reread the song and this verse together, noting the Lord’s response to hearing it.
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