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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.10
আচম্বিতে শুনেন প্রভু কৃষ্ণবেণু-গান ।
ভাবাবেশে প্রভু তাহাঁ করিলা প্রয়াণ ॥ ১০ ॥
ācambite śunena prabhu kṛṣṇa-veṇu-gāna
bhāvāveśe prabhu tāhāṅ karilā prayāṇa
Suddenly, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard the vibration of Kṛṣṇa’s flute. Then, in ecstasy, He began to depart to see Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu suddenly heard the vibration of Kṛṣṇa’s flute.
Hearing the flute, He became absorbed in ecstasy.
He began to depart because He wanted to see Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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
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.Back to this verse in Antya 17
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What does the Lord’s response to Kṛṣṇa’s flute reveal about His longing to see Kṛṣṇa?
Reread this verse slowly, pausing over the words “to see Lord Kṛṣṇa.”
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