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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.7
কভু ভাবোন্মাদে প্রভু ইতি-উতি ধায় ।
ভূমে পড়ি’ কভু মূর্চ্ছা, কভু গড়ি’ যায় ॥ ৭ ॥
kabhu bhāvonmāde prabhu iti-uti dhāya
bhūme paḍi’ kabhu mūrcchā, kabhu gaḍi’ yāya
He sometimes ran here and there in the madness of ecstasy and sometimes fell and rolled on the ground. Sometimes He became completely unconscious.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu sometimes ran here and there in the madness of ecstasy.
Sometimes He fell and rolled on the ground.
At other times, He became completely unconscious.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was unconscious, and His body had become unusually transformed. As soon as the fisherman touched the Lord’s body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.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.
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: “madness”
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What do these descriptions convey about the overwhelming nature of His ecstasy?
Read the verse quietly and note its three descriptions of His ecstatic condition.
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