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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 19.20
বাউলকে কহিহ, — লোক হইল বাউল ।
বাউলকে কহিহ, — হাটে না বিকায় চাউল ॥ ২০ ॥
bāulake kahiha, — loka ha-ila bāula
bāulake kahiha, — hāṭe nā vikāya cāula
“Please inform Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is acting like a madman, that everyone here has become mad like Him. Inform Him also that in the marketplace rice is no longer in demand.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Advaita Prabhu described Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as acting like a madman and said that everyone there had become like Him.
The following words of the message describe this madness as ecstatic love.
He also said that rice was no longer in demand in the marketplace. This statement belongs to the sonnet’s indirect language.
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:
Every year, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Jagadānanda Paṇḍita to visit His mother in Navadvīpa with gifts of cloth and prasādam. After one such visit, Jagadānanda Paṇḍita returned to Purī with a sonnet that Advaita Ācārya had written.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.
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”
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: “ecstatic love”
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How does the mention of ecstatic love help you read these unusual words?
Read this verse together with the next, noticing how ecstatic love gives context to the word “madman.”
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