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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 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Antya 15.86Antya 15.88

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.87

ভাবোদয়, ভাব-সন্ধি, ভাব-শাবল্য ।

ভাবে-ভাবে মহাযুদ্ধে সবার প্রাবল্য ॥ ৮৭ ॥

bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya

bhāve-bhāve mahā-yuddhe sabāra prābalya

Translation

All the ecstatic symptoms, such as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi and bhāva-śābalya, awakened in the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. A great fight arose between one emotion and another, and each of them became prominent.

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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.

Ecstatic Emotions Vie for Prominence

  1. 1

    All the ecstatic symptoms awakened in the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

  2. 2

    The verse names bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi and bhāva-śābalya among these symptoms.

  3. 3

    A great fight arose between one emotion and another, and each became prominent.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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

Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on. The Lord experienced all eight kinds of ecstatic transformations, and He relished them very much.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. bhāva-udayaawakening of all the ecstatic symptoms
  2. bhāva-sandhimeeting of ecstatic symptoms
  3. bhāva-śābalyamixing of ecstatic symptoms
  4. bhāve-bhāvebetween one ecstasy and another
  5. mahā-yuddhea great fight
  6. sabāraof all of them
  7. prābalyaprominence
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling

    Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “bhāva-sandhi”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the description of emotions fighting for prominence convey their intensity?

Practice

Pause over the phrase “each of them became prominent” and reflect on the intensity of the Lord’s ecstatic emotions.

Live this todayEcstatic Emotions Vie for ProminenceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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