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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.131
সপ্তদশে — গাভী-মধ্যে প্রভুর পতন ।
কূর্মাকার-অনুভাবের তাহাঁই উদ্গম ॥ ১৩১ ॥
saptadaśe — gābhī-madhye prabhura patana
kūrmākāra-anubhāvera tāhāṅi udgama
The seventeenth chapter recounts how Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fell among the cows and assumed the form of a tortoise as His ecstatic emotions awakened.
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The seventeenth chapter recounts how Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fell among the cows.
He assumed the form of a tortoise.
The summary connects this extraordinary change with the awakening of His ecstatic emotions.
Unconditional devotion. Eight prayers move from cleansing the heart to love that endures even without reciprocation.
The mood of Antya 20 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:
In this way, He became absorbed in ecstatic emotions. For the twelve years Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lived at Jagannātha Purī, He relished the taste of reciting such transcendental verses.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the mention of ecstatic emotions help you read this extraordinary event?
Write down the connection the translation makes between His emotions and His bodily form.
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