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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.17
অচেতন পড়িয়াছেন, — যেন কুষ্মাণ্ড-ফল ।
বাহিরে জড়িমা, অন্তরে আনন্দ-বিহ্বল ॥ ১৭ ॥
acetana paḍiyāchena, — yena kuṣmāṇḍa-phala
bāhire jaḍimā, antare ānanda-vihvala
As the Lord lay there unconscious, His body resembled a large pumpkin. Externally He was completely inert, but within He felt overwhelming transcendental bliss.
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As the Lord lay unconscious, His body resembled a large pumpkin.
Externally He was completely inert, showing no outward activity.
Within, however, He felt overwhelming transcendental bliss. His outward condition did not reveal His inward experience.
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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