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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.189
তবে মহাপ্ৰভু রথ প্রদক্ষিণ করিয়া ।
রথ-পাছে যাই’ ঠেলে রথে মাথা দিয়া ॥ ১৮৯ ॥
tabe mahāprabhu ratha pradakṣiṇa kariyā
ratha-pāche yāi’ ṭhele rathe māthā diyā
After circumambulating Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went behind the car and began pushing it with His head.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu circumambulated Jagannātha.
Afterward, He went behind the car.
He began pushing the car with His head.
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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What draws my attention in the Lord’s personal effort to push the car?
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