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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.21
চেতন হইলে হস্ত-পাদ বাহিরে আইল ।
পূর্ববৎ যথাযোগ্য শরীর হইল ॥ ২১ ॥
cetana ha-ile hasta-pāda bāhire āila
pūrvavat yathā-yogya śarīra ha-ila
When He regained consciousness, His arms and legs came out of His body, and His whole body returned to normal.
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The Lord regained consciousness after the devotees’ prolonged chanting.
His arms and legs then came out of His body.
His whole body returned to normal, ending the unusual bodily condition described earlier.
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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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”
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How does this verse complete the account of the Lord’s unusual bodily condition?
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