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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.7
মধ্যে মধ্যে আপনে প্রভু শ্লোক পড়িয়া ।
শ্লোকের অর্থ করেন প্রভু বিলাপ করিয়া ॥ ৭ ॥
madhye madhye āpane prabhu śloka paḍiyā
ślokera artha karena prabhu vilāpa kariyā
At intervals, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would also recite a verse. Then, in great lamentation, He would explain it.
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At intervals, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu also recited a verse.
After reciting it, He would explain it.
His explanations were given in great lamentation, within the ongoing exchange about 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.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “lamentation”
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What does the mention of great lamentation reveal about the feeling in His explanations?
Pause over the words “great lamentation,” and note how they describe the Lord’s explanation.
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