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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.76
উঠিতেই অস্থি সব লাগিল নিজ-স্থানে ।
‘অর্ধবাহ্যে’ ইতি-উতি করেন দরশনে ॥ ৭৬ ॥
uṭhitei asthi saba lāgila nija-sthāne
‘ardha-bāhye’ iti-uti karena daraśane
As soon as He got up, His bones assumed their proper places. With half-external consciousness, the Lord looked here and there.
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As soon as the Lord got up, His bones assumed their proper places.
He looked here and there in half-external consciousness.
The following verses explain that this condition combines deep internal absorption with some external consciousness.
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:
Thereafter, when the devotees chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra loudly, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to His external consciousness. Then they brought Him back to His own residence.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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