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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.141
এই শ্লোক শুনি’ প্রভু ভাবাবিষ্ট হঞা ।
উৎকণ্ঠাতে অর্থ করে প্রলাপ করিয়া ॥ ১৪১ ॥
ei śloka śuni’ prabhu bhāvāviṣṭa hañā
utkaṇṭhāte artha kare pralāpa kariyā
Upon hearing the recitation of this verse, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became absorbed in ecstatic love, and with a greatly agitated mind He began to explain its meaning like a madman.
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Upon hearing the verse, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became absorbed in ecstatic love.
His mind became greatly agitated, and He began to explain the verse’s meaning like a madman.
His explanation unfolds the gopīs’ astonishment at the flute’s enjoyment of the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips.
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:
He later became the greatest poet among the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “ecstatic love”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīs’”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s response show the depth of His absorption in what He hears?
Reread the preceding verse, then pause to consider how deeply it moved Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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