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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.72
উঘাড়-অঙ্গে পড়িয়া শঙ্কর নিদ্রা যায় ।
প্রভু উঠি’ আপন-কাঁথা তাহারে জড়ায় ॥ ৭২ ॥
ughāḍa-aṅge paḍiyā śaṅkara nidrā yāya
prabhu uṭhi’ āpana-kāṅthā tāhāre jaḍāya
He would lie asleep without a covering on his body, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would get up and wrap him with His own quilt.
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Śaṅkara would lie asleep without a covering on his body.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would get up to cover him.
The Lord wrapped Śaṅkara with His own quilt, showing personal care for the devotee serving Him.
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
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “serving”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Whose simple need for comfort might I be overlooking?
Offer one small comfort today, such as a covering to someone who is cold.
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