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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.78
এককালে বৈশাখের পৌর্ণমাসী-দিনে ।
রাত্রিকালে মহাপ্রভু চলিলা উদ্যানে ॥ ৭৮ ॥
eka-kāle vaiśākhera paurṇamāsī-dine
rātri-kāle mahāprabhu calilā udyāne
One full-moon night in the month of Vaiśākha [April-May], Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to a garden.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to a garden one full-moon night.
The visit took place in the month of Vaiśākha, corresponding to April–May.
After describing His continuous ecstatic love, the account now introduces a particular garden visit.
Longing beyond ordinary categories. Extreme separation alternates with moments of visionary encounter.
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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: “ecstatic love”
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Pause while reading and recall the two details given here: a full-moon night and the month of Vaiśākha.
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