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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.109
কভু নেত্রে নাসায় জল, মুখে পড়ে ফেন ।
অমৃতের ধারা চন্দ্রবিম্বে বহে যেন ॥ ১০৯ ॥
kabhu netre nāsāya jala, mukhe paḍe phena
amṛtera dhārā candra-bimbe vahe yena
Water flowed from His eyes and sometimes through His nostrils, and foam fell from His mouth. These flowings appeared to be torrents of nectar descending from the moon.
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Water flowed from the Lord’s eyes and sometimes through His nostrils.
Foam fell from His mouth.
These flowings appeared like torrents of nectar descending from the moon.
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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How does the image of nectar descending from the moon shape your reading of this description?
Read the translation once more today, giving special attention to its comparison with torrents of nectar.
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