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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.107
ইহার সত্যত্বে প্রমাণ শ্রীভাগবতে ।
শ্রীরাধার প্রেম-প্রলাপ ‘ভ্রমর-গীতা’তে ॥ ১০৭ ॥
ihāra satyatve pramāṇa śrī-bhāgavate
śrī-rādhāra prema-pralāpa ‘bhramara-gītā’te
The evidence of the truth of these talks is found in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. There, in the section of the Tenth Canto known as the Bhramara-gīta, “The Song to the Bumblebee,” Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī speaks insanely in ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam provides evidence for the truth of these talks. In the Bhramara-gīta, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī speaks insanely in ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
Uddhava arrived from Mathurā carrying a message for the gopīs. They began talking about Kṛṣṇa and crying.
Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī saw a bumblebee and spoke to it like someone mad. She thought it was Uddhava’s messenger or someone very dear to him and Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Antya 19.107 quotesSB 10.47.12
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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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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”, “ecstatic love”
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhārāṇī”
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: “crying”
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How does this scriptural account help me approach speech arising from ecstatic love?
Read the translation and purport together, noting that Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s unusual speech arises from ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
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