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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.32
শুনি’ প্রভু গোপীভাবে আবিষ্ট হইলা ।
ভাগবতের শ্লোকের অর্থ করিতে লাগিলা ॥ ৩২ ॥
śuni’ prabhu gopī-bhāve āviṣṭa ha-ilā
bhāgavatera ślokera artha karite lāgilā
Upon hearing this verse, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, overwhelmed with the ecstasy of the gopīs, began to explain it.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard the verse recited by Svarūpa Dāmodara.
Upon hearing it, He was overwhelmed with the ecstasy of the gopīs.
In that state of ecstasy, He began to explain the verse.
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.
How does His response show the depth of His hearing?
Reread the preceding verse, then write one sentence about what it expresses concerning Kṛṣṇa.
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