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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.117
জগন্নাথে মগ্ন প্রভুর নয়ন-হৃদয় ।
শ্রীহস্তযুগে করে গীতের অভিনয় ॥ ১১৭ ॥
jagannāthe magna prabhura nayana-hṛdaya
śrī-hasta-yuge kare gītera abhinaya
His eyes and mind fully absorbed in Lord Jagannātha, Caitanya Mahāprabhu began to play the drama of the song with His two arms.
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Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s eyes were fully absorbed in Lord Jagannātha.
His mind was also fully absorbed in the Lord.
With His two arms, He began dramatically enacting the song.
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:
Lord Jagannātha took permission from the goddess of fortune and then started in the car for the Guṇḍicā temple. The road to the temple led along a broad, sandy beach, and on both sides of the road were residential quarters, houses and gardens.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 does it mean to you that both Mahāprabhu’s eyes and His mind were absorbed in Lord Jagannātha?
Read this verse once without rushing, giving your full attention to its description of absorption in Lord Jagannātha.
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