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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.3
এইমত মহাপ্রভু রাত্রি-দিবসে ।
উন্মাদের চেষ্টা, প্রলাপ করে প্রেমাবেশে ॥ ৩ ॥
ei-mata mahāprabhu rātri-divase
unmādera ceṣṭā, pralāpa kare premāveśe
Absorbed in ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu acted and talked like a madman day and night.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was absorbed in ecstasy.
In that absorption, He acted and talked like a madman.
This continued day and night; the surrounding account describes His spiritual madness as transcendental and uncommon.
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.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “madness”
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How does the description of spiritual ecstasy shape my understanding of His unusual behavior?
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