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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.111
এইমত তাণ্ডব-নৃত্য কৈল কতক্ষণ ।
ভাব-বিশেষে প্রভুর প্ৰবেশিল মন ॥ ১১১ ॥
ei-mata tāṇḍava-nṛtya kaila kata-kṣaṇa
bhāva-viśeṣe prabhura praveśila mana
After Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had performed His devastating dance for some time, His mind entered into a mood of ecstatic love.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu performed His devastating dance.
His dancing continued for some time.
Afterward, His mind entered into a mood of ecstatic love.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu divided His saṅkīrtana party into seven divisions. With two mṛdaṅgas in each division, there were altogether fourteen mṛdaṅgas.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the movement from the Lord’s dance to His inner mood?
Read this verse quietly today, pausing at the words “a mood of ecstatic love.”
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