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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 13: The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yātrā
Madhya 13.182Madhya 13.184

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.183

আবেশেতে নিত্যানন্দ না হৈলা সাবধানে ।

কাশীশ্বর-গোবিন্দ আছিলা অন্য-স্থানে ॥ ১৮৩ ॥

āveśete nityānanda nā hailā sāvadhāne

kāśīśvara-govinda āchilā anya-sthāne

Translation

Not even Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, Kāśīśvara or Govinda took care of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu when He fell down. Nityānanda was in great ecstasy, and Kāśīśvara and Govinda were elsewhere.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Ecstasy and Absence Explain the Unattended Fall

  1. 1

    Neither Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, Kāśīśvara nor Govinda took care of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu when He fell down.

  2. 2

    Nityānanda was in great ecstasy.

  3. 3

    Kāśīśvara and Govinda were elsewhere.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 13: The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yātrā

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.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. āveśetein great ecstasy
  2. nityānandaNityānanda Prabhu
  3. nānot
  4. hailābecame
  5. sāvadhānecareful
  6. kāśīśvaraKāśīśvara
  7. govindaGovinda
  8. āchilāwere
  9. anya-sthānein another place
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How do the circumstances given here help you avoid assuming indifference?

Practice

Reread the verse and name the two circumstances it gives: great ecstasy and being elsewhere.

Live this todayEcstasy and Absence Explain the Unattended FallThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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