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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.14
তবে স্বরূপ-গোসাঞি সঙ্গে লঞা ভক্তগণ ।
দেউটি জ্বালিয়া করেন প্রভুর অন্বেষণ ॥ ১৪ ॥
tabe svarūpa-gosāñi saṅge lañā bhakta-gaṇa
deuṭi jvāliyā karena prabhura anveṣaṇa
Then Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī lit a torch and went out with all the devotees to search for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī lit a torch.
He went out with all the devotees to search for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Their concern took the form of practical action: bringing light and searching together.
Inconceivable ecstatic absorption. The Lord’s overwhelming love manifests extraordinary bodily changes.
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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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