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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.34
পূর্বে যেন বিশাখারে রাধিকা পুছিলা ।
সেই শ্লোক পড়ি’ প্রলাপ করিতে লাগিলা ॥ ৩৪ ॥
pūrve yena viśākhāre rādhikā puchilā
sei śloka paḍi’ pralāpa karite lāgilā
Just as Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī inquired from Her personal friend Viśākhā, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, reciting that very verse, began speaking like a madman.
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Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī had inquired from Her personal friend Viśākhā.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited that very verse, expressing Her inquiry.
He began speaking like a madman; the next verse gives His urgent questions about Kṛṣṇa’s whereabouts.
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:
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu read it, His ecstasy was so great that all the devotees feared that the Lord would very soon pass away. The Lord’s condition was so serious that at night He would bruise and bloody His face by rubbing it against the walls.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 19
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about Mahāprabhu’s absorption in Rādhārāṇī’s inquiry?
Read this verse together with the next, paying attention to the words addressed to a dear friend.
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