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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.11
তিনদ্বারে কপাট ঐছে আছে ত’ লাগিয়া ।
ভাবাবেশে প্রভু গেলা বাহির হঞা ॥ ১১ ॥
tina-dvāre kapāṭa aiche āche ta’ lāgiyā
bhāvāveśe prabhu gelā bāhira hañā
All three doors were fastened as usual, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in great ecstasy, nevertheless got out of the room and left the house.
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All three doors were fastened as usual.
Nevertheless, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu got out of the room and left the house.
His departure took place in great ecstasy, after He had heard Kṛṣṇa’s flute and set out to see Him.
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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