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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.120
নাচিতে নাচিতে প্রভুর হৈলা ভাবান্তর ।
হস্ত তুলি’ শ্লোক পড়ে করি’ উচ্চৈঃস্বর ॥ ১২০ ॥
nācite nācite prabhura hailā bhāvāntara
hasta tuli’ śloka paḍe kari’ uccaiḥ-svara
While Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was dancing, His ecstasy changed. Raising His two arms, He began to recite the following verse in a loud voice.
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While Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was dancing, His ecstasy changed.
He raised His two arms.
He began to recite a verse in a loud voice.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the way Mahāprabhu’s changing ecstasy found outward expression?
Read this translation aloud once, noticing the change from dancing to recitation.
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