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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.114
এই ধুয়া উচ্চৈঃস্বরে গায় দামোদর ।
আনন্দে মধুর নৃত্য করেন ঈশ্বর ॥ ১১৪ ॥
ei dhuyā uccaiḥ-svare gāya dāmodara
ānande madhura nṛtya karena īśvara
When this refrain was loudly sung by Svarūpa Dāmodara, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again began rhythmically dancing in transcendental bliss.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara loudly sang the refrain.
As the refrain was sung, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again began dancing.
His dancing was rhythmic and filled with transcendental bliss.
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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