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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.125
জগন্নাথ দেখি’ প্রভুর সে ভাব উঠিল ।
সেই ভাবাবিষ্ট হঞা ধুয়া গাওয়াইল ॥ ১২৫ ॥
jagannātha dekhi’ prabhura se bhāva uṭhila
sei bhāvāviṣṭa hañā dhuyā gāoyāila
Similarly, after seeing Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu awoke with the ecstasy of the gopīs. Being absorbed in this ecstasy, He asked Svarūpa Dāmodara to sing the refrain.
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After seeing Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu awoke with the ecstasy of the gopīs.
He became absorbed in this ecstasy.
In that absorption, He asked Svarūpa Dāmodara to sing the refrain.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīs”
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How are seeing Lord Jagannātha and hearing the refrain connected in this verse?
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