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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.173
প্রভুর শরীর যেন শুদ্ধ-হেমাচল ।
ভাব-পুষ্পদ্রুম তাহে পুষ্পিত সকল ॥ ১৭৩ ॥
prabhura śarīra yena śuddha-hemācala
bhāva-puṣpa-druma tāhe puṣpita sakala
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s body appeared like a transcendental Himalayan mountain bearing ecstatic emotional flower trees, all of them blooming.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s body appeared like a transcendental Himalayan mountain.
His ecstatic emotions are pictured as flower trees borne by that mountain.
All of these trees were blooming.
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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How does the image of a mountain covered with blooming trees help you reflect on His ecstatic emotions?
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