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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.67
পুত্রে আলিঙ্গন করি’ প্রেমাবিষ্ট হৈলা ।
সাক্ষাৎ পরশ যেন মহাপ্রভুর পাইলা ॥ ৬৭ ॥
putre āliṅgana kari’ premāviṣṭa hailā
sākṣāt paraśa yena mahāprabhura pāilā
Just by embracing his son, the King was filled with ecstatic love, just as if he had touched Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu directly.
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The King embraced his son.
Just by this embrace, the King was filled with ecstatic love.
His experience was as if he had touched Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu directly.
Purification through joyful service. Collective cleansing becomes a visible devotional act before Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 12 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 incident is very significant, for it awoke within the devotee ecstatic love. Then the son of Advaita Prabhu named Gopāla fainted during kīrtana, and when he did not come to his senses, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu favored him by awakening him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 12
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “ecstatic love”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “embraced”
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What strikes you about the King receiving ecstatic love simply by embracing his son?
Spend a quiet minute reflecting on the words “just as if he had touched Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu directly.”
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