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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.9
একমন পঞ্চদিকে পঞ্চগুণ টানে ।
টানাটানি প্রভুর মন হৈল অগেয়ানে ॥ ৯ ॥
eka-mana pañca-dike pañca-guṇa ṭāne
ṭānāṭāni prabhura mana haila ageyāne
Just as in a tug-of-war, the single mind of Lord Caitanya was attracted in five directions by the five transcendental attributes of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Thus the Lord became unconscious.
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Lord Caitanya’s single mind was attracted in five directions by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s five transcendental attributes.
The attraction is compared to a tug-of-war, with each attribute drawing His mind toward itself.
This overwhelming attraction caused the Lord to become unconscious.
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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