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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.161
এই সব অর্থ প্রভু স্বরূপের সনে ।
রাত্রি-দিনে ঘরে বসি’ করে আস্বাদনে ॥ ১৬১ ॥
ei saba artha prabhu svarūpera sane
rātri-dine ghare vasi’ kare āsvādane
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would sit in His room with Svarūpa Dāmodara and taste the topics of these verses day and night.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would sit in His room with Svarūpa Dāmodara.
Together they tasted the topics of these verses.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relished these topics day and night.
Public ecstasy with inward longing. The festival’s collective joy carries the profound Vraja mood of meeting and separation.
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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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