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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.104
সর্বাঙ্গে প্রস্বেদ ছুটে তাতে রক্তোদ্গম ।
‘জজ গগ’ ‘জজ গগ’ — গদগদ-বচন ॥ ১০৪ ॥
sarvāṅge prasveda chuṭe tāte raktodgama
‘jaja gaga’ ‘jaja gaga’ — gadgada-vacana
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s whole body flowed with perspiration and at the same time oozed blood. He made the sounds “jaja gaga, jaja gaga” in a voice choked with ecstasy.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s whole body flowed with perspiration.
At the same time, His body oozed blood.
In a voice choked with ecstasy, He made the sounds “jaja gaga, jaja gaga.”
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:
While performing kīrtana, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited various symptoms of transcendental ecstasy, and Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exchanged Their feelings very blissfully. When the cars reached the place known as Balagaṇḍi, the devotees offered the deities simple food.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
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