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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.165
ভাবের আবেশে কভু ভূমিতে বসিয়া ।
তর্জনীতে ভূমে লিখে অধোমুখ হঞা ॥ ১৬৫ ॥
bhāvera āveśe kabhu bhūmite vasiyā
tarjanīte bhūme likhe adhomukha hañā
In emotional ecstasy, Caitanya Mahāprabhu would sometimes sit on the ground and, looking down, would write on the ground with His finger.
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In emotional ecstasy, Caitanya Mahāprabhu would sometimes sit on the ground.
While sitting, He would look down.
He would write on the ground with His finger.
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 I notice about the quiet actions through which the Lord’s ecstatic emotion appeared?
Reread the translation and pause over each action: sitting, looking down and writing.
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