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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.107
কভু স্তম্ভ, কভু প্রভু ভূমিতে লোটায় ।
শুষ্ককাষ্ঠসম পদ-হস্ত না চলয় ॥ ১০৭ ॥
kabhu stambha, kabhu prabhu bhūmite loṭāya
śuṣka-kāṣṭha-sama pada-hasta nā calaya
Sometimes He appeared stunned, and sometimes He rolled on the ground. Indeed, sometimes His legs and hands became as hard as dry wood, and He did not move.
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Sometimes the Lord appeared stunned.
At other times, He rolled on the ground.
Sometimes His hands and legs became as hard as dry wood, and He did not move.
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 stands out to you in the contrast between the Lord’s rolling and His complete stillness?
Reread the verse today and identify the three different bodily conditions it describes.
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