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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.5
যবে যেই ভাব প্রভুর করয়ে উদয় ।
ভাবানুরূপ গীত গায় স্বরূপ-মহাশয় ॥ ৫ ॥
yabe yei bhāva prabhura karaye udaya
bhāvānurūpa gīta gāya svarūpa-mahāśaya
As they talked of Kṛṣṇa, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī would sing songs exactly suitable for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s transcendental emotions.
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Their conversation centered on Kṛṣṇa.
During that conversation, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī sang songs.
His songs were exactly suitable for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s transcendental emotions.
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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In this verse: “conversation”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do I notice about the care with which Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī chose his songs?
Write one sentence describing how the songs related to the Lord’s emotions.
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