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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.192
তাহাঁ নৃত্য করি’ জগন্নাথ আগে আইলা ।
জগন্নাথ দেখি’ নৃত্য করিতে লাগিলা ॥ ১৯২ ॥
tāhāṅ nṛtya kari’ jagannātha āge āilā
jagannātha dekhi’ nṛtya karite lāgilā
After finishing the dance before Lord Baladeva and Subhadrā, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came before Lord Jagannātha’s car. Upon seeing Lord Jagannātha, He began to dance again.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu finished dancing before Lord Baladeva and Subhadrā.
He then came before Lord Jagannātha’s car.
Upon seeing Lord Jagannātha, He began to dance again.
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 does the Lord’s renewed dancing upon seeing Lord Jagannātha invite me to reflect on?
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