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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 17.66
ইহা যেই শুনে, তার জুড়ায় মন-কাণ ।
অলৌকিক গূঢ়প্রেম-চেষ্টা হয় জ্ঞান ॥ ৬৬ ॥
ihā yei śune, tāra juḍāya mana-kāṇa
alaukika gūḍha-prema-ceṣṭā haya jñāna
This description, however, will satisfy the mind and ears of anyone who hears it, and he will be able to understand these uncommon activities of deep ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
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Hearing this description will satisfy the mind and ears.
The description helps the listener understand these uncommon activities.
These activities express deep ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
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.
Prema · Love of Godhead
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In this verse: “love for krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I listening attentively to what these uncommon activities reveal about love for Kṛṣṇa?
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