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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.85
প্রতিবৃক্ষবল্লী ঐছে ভ্রমিতে ভ্রমিতে ।
অশোকের তলে কৃষ্ণে দেখেন আচম্বিতে ॥ ৮৫ ॥
prati-vṛkṣa-vallī aiche bhramite bhramite
aśokera tale kṛṣṇe dekhena ācambite
As He thus wandered around every tree and creeper, He came beneath an aśoka tree and suddenly saw Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wandered around every tree and creeper.
He came beneath an aśoka tree.
There He suddenly saw Lord Kṛṣṇa, turning the garden scene into an encounter with Him.
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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