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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 17: The Bodily Transformations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Antya 17.38Antya 17.40

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.39

এত কহি’ ক্রোধাবেশে, ভাবের তরঙ্গে ভাসে, উৎকণ্ঠা-সাগরে ডুবে মন ।

রাধার উৎকণ্ঠা-বাণী, পড়ি’ আপনে বাখানি, কৃষ্ণমাধুর্য করে আস্বাদন ॥ ৩৯ ॥

eta kahi’ krodhāveśe, bhāvera taraṅge bhāse,

utkaṇṭhā-sāgare ḍube mana

rādhāra utkaṇṭhā-vāṇī, paḍi’ āpane vākhāni,

kṛṣṇa-mādhurya kare āsvādana

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu spoke these words in a mood of anger as He floated on waves of ecstatic love. Merged in an ocean of anxiety, He recited a verse spoken by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī expressing the same emotion. Then He personally explained the verse and thus tasted the sweetness of Kṛṣṇa.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Tasting Sweetness Amid Ecstatic Anxiety

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu spoke in anger while floating on waves of ecstatic love.

  2. 2

    Merged in an ocean of anxiety, He recited a verse spoken by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī that expressed the same emotion.

  3. 3

    He personally explained the verse and thus tasted the sweetness of Kṛṣṇa.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 17: The Bodily Transformations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. eta kahi’saying this
  2. krodha-āveśein the mood of anger
  3. bhāvera taraṅgein the waves of ecstatic love
  4. bhāsefloats
  5. utkaṇṭhāof anxieties
  6. sāgarein the ocean
  7. ḍube manamerges the mind
  8. rādhāraof Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose

    The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “rādhārāṇī”

  • Prema · Love of Godhead

    The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “ecstatic love”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this verse help you see anger and anxiety within the ecstatic love being described?

Practice

Reread the translation and note how reciting and explaining the verse accompanied tasting Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.

Live this todayTasting Sweetness Amid Ecstatic AnxietyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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