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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.77
এইমত মহাপ্রভু রাত্রি-দিবসে ।
প্রেমসিন্ধু-মগ্ন রহে, কভু ডুবে, ভাসে ॥ ৭৭ ॥
ei-mata mahāprabhu rātri-divase
prema-sindhu-magna rahe, kabhu ḍube, bhāse
In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stayed immersed day and night in an ocean of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa. Sometimes He was submerged, and sometimes He floated.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu remained immersed in ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
This absorption continued day and night.
His love is described as an ocean in which He sometimes submerged and sometimes floated.
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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In this verse: “love for krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the image of an ocean help me understand about the depth of His love for Kṛṣṇa?
Spend one quiet minute reflecting on the phrase “an ocean of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.”
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