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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.13
এথা গোবিন্দ মহাপ্রভুর শব্দ না পাঞা ।
স্বরূপেরে বোলাইল কপাট খুলিয়া ॥ ১৩ ॥
ethā govinda mahāprabhura śabda nā pāñā
svarūpere bolāila kapāṭa khuliyā
Meanwhile, not hearing any sounds from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Govinda immediately sent for Svarūpa Dāmodara and opened the doors.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Govinda noticed that no sounds were coming from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
He immediately sent for Svarūpa Dāmodara.
He opened the doors, responding promptly to the Lord’s silence.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What can you learn from Govinda’s attentive and immediate response?
Attend to one responsibility today without delay, asking for help if needed.
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