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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 19: The Inconceivable Behavior of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Antya 19.75 Antya 19.77

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.76

স্বকীয়স্য প্রাণার্বুদসদৃশ-গোষ্ঠস্য বিরহাত্ প্রলাপানুন্মাদাত্ সততমতি কুর্বন্ বিকলধীঃ ।

দধদ্ভিত্তৌ শশ্বদ্বদনবিধুঘর্ষেণ রুধিরং ক্ষতোত্থং গৌরাঙ্গো হৃদয় উদয়ন্মাং মদয়তি ॥ ৭৬ ॥

svakīyasya prāṇārbuda-sadṛśa-goṣṭhasya virahāt

pralāpān unmādāt satatam ati kurvan vikala-dhīḥ

dadhad bhittau śaśvad vadana-vidhu-gharṣeṇa rudhiraṁ

kṣatotthaṁ gaurāṅgo hṛdaya udayan māṁ madayati

Translation

“Because of separation from His many friends in Vṛndāvana, who were like His own life, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu spoke like a madman. His intelligence was transformed. Day and night He rubbed His moonlike face against the walls, and blood flowed from the injuries. May that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rise in my heart and make me mad with love.”

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

A Prayer for Love in Separation

1
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu felt separation from His many friends in Vṛndāvana, who were like His own life.
2
His intelligence was transformed, and He spoke like a madman. Day and night He rubbed His moonlike face against the walls, causing bleeding injuries.
3
The prayer asks that this Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rise in the speaker’s heart and make him mad with love.

How it feels

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

Antya 19: The Inconceivable Behavior of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

The Lord’s condition was so serious that at night He would bruise and bloody His face by rubbing it against the walls. To stop this, Svarūpa Dāmodara asked Śaṅkara Paṇḍita to stay at night in the same room with the Lord.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

svakīyasyaHis own
prāṇa-arbudauncountable breaths of life
sadṛśalike
goṣṭhasyaof Vṛndāvana
virahātbecause of separation
pralāpāncrazy talks
unmādātbecause of madness
satatamalways

Key ideas in this verse

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: “separation”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “transformed”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the prayer’s closing request teach me about the love the speaker longs for?

Practice

Read the closing prayer aloud once, directing your attention to its longing for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to rise in the heart.

Live this todayA Prayer for Love in SeparationThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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