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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.22
উঠিয়া বসিলেন প্রভু, চাহেন ইতি-উতি ।
স্বরূপে কহেন, — “তুমি আমা আনিলা কতি ? ২২ ।। ॥ ২২ ॥
uṭhiyā vasilena prabhu, cāhena iti-uti
svarūpe kahena, — “tumi āmā ānilā kati?
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stood up and then sat down again. Looking here and there, He inquired from Svarūpa Dāmodara, “Where have you brought Me?
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stood up and then sat down again.
He looked here and there after regaining consciousness.
He asked Svarūpa Dāmodara where they had brought Him. His following words describe His experience in Vṛndāvana.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the Lord’s question invite you to notice about His return to outward consciousness?
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