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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.103
এক এক দন্তের কম্প দেখিতে লাগে ভয় ।
লোকে জানে, দন্ত সব খসিয়া পড়য় ॥ ১০৩ ॥
eka eka dantera kampa dekhite lāge bhaya
loke jāne, danta saba khasiyā paḍaya
Indeed, the people became afraid just to see His teeth chatter, and they even thought that His teeth would fall out.
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His teeth chattered visibly.
The people became afraid simply by seeing this.
They even thought that His teeth would fall out.
Public ecstasy with inward longing. The festival’s collective joy carries the profound Vraja mood of meeting and separation.
The mood of Madhya 13 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:
Along that road the servants called gauḍas began to pull the cars. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu divided His saṅkīrtana party into seven divisions.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the people’s fear tell you about the intensity of what they witnessed?
Reread the verse and distinguish what the people saw from what they feared might happen.
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