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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.105
ধন্যস্যায়ং নবঃ প্রেমা যস্যোন্মীলতি চেতসি ।
অন্তর্বাণীভিরপ্যস্য মুদ্রা সুষ্ঠু সুদুর্গমা ॥ ১০৫ ॥
dhanyasyāyaṁ navaḥ premā
yasyonmīlati cetasi
antar-vāṇībhir apy asya
mudrā suṣṭhu su-durgamā
“The activities and symptoms of that exalted personality in whose heart love of Godhead has awakened cannot be understood even by the most learned scholar.”
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When love of Godhead awakens in someone’s heart, that person’s activities and symptoms are extraordinary.
Even the most learned scholar cannot understand the activities and symptoms of such an exalted personality.
This teaching is quoted from the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu.
Longing beyond ordinary categories. Extreme separation alternates with moments of visionary encounter.
The mood of Antya 19 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:
This chapter further describes how Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu entered the Jagannātha-vallabha garden during the full-moon night of Vaiśākha (April-May) and experienced various transcendental ecstasies. Overwhelmed with ecstatic love at suddenly seeing Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa beneath an aśoka tree, He exhibited various symptoms of spiritual madness.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 19
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In this verse: “love of godhead”
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How can this teaching help me recognize the limits of scholarly understanding?
Read the translation slowly and pause to acknowledge that awakened love of Godhead exceeds your present understanding.
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