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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.67
অদ্ভুত নিগূঢ় প্রেমের মাধুর্য-মহিমা ।
আপনি আস্বাদি’ প্রভু দেখাইলা সীমা ॥ ৬৭ ॥
adbhuta nigūḍha premera mādhurya-mahimā
āpani āsvādi’ prabhu dekhāilā sīmā
Ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa is wonderfully deep. By personally tasting the glorious sweetness of that love, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu showed us its extreme limit.
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Ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa is wonderfully deep.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally tasted the glorious sweetness of that love.
Through His own experience, He showed us the extreme limit of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
Inconceivable ecstatic absorption. The Lord’s overwhelming love manifests extraordinary bodily changes.
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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: “love for krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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What does this verse help me appreciate about the depth of love for Kṛṣṇa?
Spend a quiet minute reflecting on the words “glorious sweetness” in this verse.
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