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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.80
প্রফুল্লিত বৃক্ষ-বল্লী, — যেন বৃন্দাবন ।
শুক, শারী, পিক, ভৃঙ্গ করে আলাপন ॥ ৮০ ॥
praphullita vṛkṣa-vallī, — yena vṛndāvana
śuka, śārī, pika, bhṛṅga kare ālāpana
In the garden were fully blossomed trees and creepers exactly like those in Vṛndāvana. Bumblebees and birds like the śuka, śārī and pika talked with one another.
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The garden contained fully blossomed trees and creepers.
These trees and creepers were exactly like those in Vṛndāvana.
Bumblebees and birds such as the śuka, śārī and pika talked with one another, filling the description with living sound.
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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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”
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How do the blossoms and sounds help me appreciate the garden the Lord entered?
Reread the verse once for its flowers and greenery, then once for its bees and birds.
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