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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.28
শুনিতে না পাইনু সেই অমৃতসম বাণী ।
শুনিতে না পাইনু ভূষণ-মুরলীর ধ্বনি ।।” ২৮ ।। ॥ ২৮ ॥
śunite nā pāinu sei amṛta-sama vāṇī
śunite nā pāinu bhūṣaṇa-muralīra dhvani”
“Because you brought Me back here, I could no longer hear the nectarean voices of Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs, nor could I hear the sounds of their ornaments or the flute.”
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explains that being brought back ended His hearing of Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs.
He calls their voices nectarean, expressing how sweet they were to His ears.
He could no longer hear their ornaments or the flute.
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: “gopīs”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does His account of these lost sounds reveal about their sweetness to Him?
Name the three kinds of sounds mentioned here, then reread the verse with attention to His longing.
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