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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.134
কহিতে কহিতে প্রভুর মন ফিরি’ গেল ।
ক্রোধ-অংশ শান্ত হৈল, উৎকণ্ঠা বাড়িল ॥ ১৩৪ ॥
kahite kahite prabhura mana phiri’ gela
krodha-aṁśa śānta haila, utkaṇṭhā bāḍila
While Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was talking like this, His mind changed. His anger subsided, but His mental agitation increased.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
While Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was speaking in this way, His state of mind changed.
His anger subsided.
His mental agitation increased rather than becoming calm.
Sweetness amidst longing. Jagannātha’s prasādam awakens intense awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
The mood of Antya 16 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 Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ate the remnants of food known as vallabha-bhoga, He described the glories of such remnants of the Lord’s food and then fed all the devotees the prasādam. Thus they all tasted adharāmṛta, the nectar from the lips of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the difference between His anger subsiding and His agitation increasing?
Reread the verse and name the two changes it describes: less anger and greater agitation.
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