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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 17: The Bodily Transformations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Antya 16.151Antya 17.2

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.1

লিখ্যতে শ্রীল-গৌরেন্দোরত্যদ্ভুতমলৌকিকম্ ।

যৈর্দৃষ্টং তন্মুখাচ্ছ্রুত্বা দিব্যোন্মাদ-বিচেষ্টিতম্ ॥ ১ ॥

likhyate śrīla-gaurendor

aty-adbhutam alaukikam

yair dṛṣṭaṁ tan-mukhāc chrutvā

divyonmāda-viceṣṭitam

Translation

I am simply trying to write about Lord Gauracandra’s transcendental activities and spiritual madness, which are very wonderful and uncommon. I dare to write of them only because I have heard from the mouths of those who have personally seen the Lord’s activities.

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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.

Hear Before Describing the Lord’s Activities

  1. 1

    The author is trying to describe Lord Gauracandra’s transcendental activities and spiritual madness.

  2. 2

    These activities are very wonderful and uncommon.

  3. 3

    He dares to write only because he has heard from those who personally witnessed the Lord’s activities.

How it feels

Inconceivable ecstatic absorption. The Lord’s overwhelming love manifests extraordinary bodily changes.

The mood of Antya 17 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 17: The Bodily Transformations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:

Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the seventeenth chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Absorbed in transcendental ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went out one night without opening the doors to His room. After crossing over three walls, He fell down among some cows belonging to the district of Tailaṅga. There He remained unconscious, assuming the aspect of a tortoise.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. likhyatethey are being written
  2. śrīlamost opulent
  3. gauraof Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  4. indoḥmoonlike
  5. ativery
  6. adbhutamwonderful
  7. alaukikamuncommon
  8. yaiḥby whom
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Vipralambha · Love in separation

    Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “madness”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can the author’s care in hearing guide my own study?

Practice

Read this translation slowly, and note the source of the author’s confidence.

Live this todayHear Before Describing the Lord’s ActivitiesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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