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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.75
এই লীলা মহাপ্রভুর রঘুনাথ-দাস ।
গৌরাঙ্গ-স্তবকল্পবৃক্ষে করিয়াছে প্রকাশ ॥ ৭৫ ॥
ei līlā mahāprabhura raghunātha-dāsa
gaurāṅga-stava-kalpavṛkṣe kariyāche prakāśa
This pastime of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s has been described very nicely by Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī in his book known as Gaurāṅga-stava-kalpavṛkṣa.
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Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī described this pastime of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
His account appears in the book Gaurāṅga-stava-kalpavṛkṣa.
The verse praises his description as very nice, introducing the prayer quoted next.
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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How does reading a carefully expressed devotional account help me attend to the Lord’s pastimes?
Read the prayer in the next verse slowly, noticing how it moves from description to personal prayer.
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