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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.22
শ্রীকৃষ্ণচৈতন্য যাহা করেন আস্বাদন ।
সবে এক জানে তাহা স্বরূপাদি ‘গণ’ ॥ ২২ ॥
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya yāhā karena āsvādana
sabe eka jāne tāhā svarūpādi ‘gaṇa’
Only a person on the level of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī can fully know what Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu tastes in His love for Kṛṣṇa.
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Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu tastes love for Kṛṣṇa.
Only a person on the level of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī can fully know what He tastes.
The verse distinguishes full understanding of His experience from the limited understanding of an ordinary living entity.
Desperate longing and relief. Mistaking the sea for Yamunā, the Lord enters it; devotees find and revive Him.
The mood of Antya 18 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
As soon as the fisherman touched the Lord’s body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. His own madness frightened him, however, because he thought that he was being haunted by a ghost.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “love for krsna”
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How can you respect the depth of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s experience without claiming to understand it fully?
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