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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
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 13.83 Madhya 13.85

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.84

স্তম্ভ, স্বেদ, পুলক, অশ্রু, কম্প, বৈবর্ণ্য ।

নানা-ভাবে বিবশতা, গর্ব, হর্ষ, দৈন্য ॥ ৮৪ ॥

stambha, sveda, pulaka, aśru, kampa, vaivarṇya

nānā-bhāve vivaśatā, garva, harṣa, dainya

Translation

When Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced, He displayed various blissful transcendental changes in His body. Sometimes He appeared as though stunned. Sometimes the hairs of His body stood on end. Sometimes He perspired, cried, trembled and changed color, and sometimes He exhibited symptoms of helplessness, pride, exuberance and humility.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Blissful Transcendental Changes While Dancing

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While dancing, Caitanya Mahāprabhu displayed various blissful transcendental changes in His body.
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Sometimes He appeared stunned or His bodily hairs stood on end. Sometimes He perspired, cried, trembled and changed color.
3
He also exhibited symptoms of helplessness, pride, exuberance and humility.

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

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.

stambhabeing stunned
svedaperspiration
pulakajubilation
aśrutears
kampatrembling
vaivarṇyachange of color
nānā-bhāvein various ways
vivaśatāhelplessness

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “humility”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What stands out to you in the variety of blissful transcendental changes described here?

Practice

Read the translation and write down three changes it describes in Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Live this todayBlissful Transcendental Changes While DancingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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