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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.56
প্রতাপরুদ্রের হৈল পরম বিস্ময় ।
দেখিতে বিবশ রাজা হৈল প্রেমময় ॥ ৫৬ ॥
pratāparudrera haila parama vismaya
dekhite vivaśa rājā haila premamaya
King Pratāparudra was also astonished to see the saṅkīrtana. He became inactive and was converted to ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
King Pratāparudra was astonished to see the saṅkīrtana.
He became inactive as he witnessed it.
He was converted to ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.
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:
At that time, King Pratāparudra took a broom with a golden handle and began to cleanse the road. Lord Jagannātha took permission from the goddess of fortune and then started in the car for the Guṇḍicā temple.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of krsna”, “ecstatic love”
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “saṅkīrtana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What moves you about King Pratāparudra’s response to the saṅkīrtana?
Give a few quiet minutes to hearing saṅkīrtana today, remembering the king’s love of Kṛṣṇa.
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