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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 14: Performance of the Vṛndāvana Pastimes

Madhya 14.100 Madhya 14.102

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.101

প্রভু সঙ্গে স্বরূপাদি কীর্তনীয়া গায় ।

দিক্‌বিদিক্ নাহি জ্ঞান প্রেমের বন্যায় ॥ ১০১ ॥

prabhu-saṅge svarūpādi kīrtanīyā gāya

dik-vidik nāhi jñāna premera vanyāya

Translation

Then devotees like Svarūpa Dāmodara and other kīrtana performers began to sing along with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Being inundated with ecstatic love, they lost all consideration of time and circumstance.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Singing Together in Ecstatic Love

1
Devotees like Svarūpa Dāmodara and other kīrtana performers began to sing.
2
They sang along with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
3
Inundated with ecstatic love, they lost all consideration of time and circumstance.

How it feels

Intimacy and ecstatic play. Mercy to Pratāparudra and discussion of the gopīs reveal deep relational sweetness.

The mood of Madhya 14 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Madhya 14: Performance of the Vṛndāvana Pastimes

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

The Lord, in His ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa, immediately embraced the King and thus bestowed mercy upon him. When there was an offering of prasādam in the garden, Lord Caitanya also partook of it.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

prabhu-saṅgewith Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
svarūpa-ādiheaded by Svarūpa Dāmodara
kīrtanīyāchanters
gāyasing
dik-vidikof time and circumstances
nāhinot
jñānaknowledge
premeraof ecstatic love
vanyāyaby the inundation

Key ideas in this 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: “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: “kīrtana”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the devotees’ absorption reveal about the depth of their ecstatic love?

Practice

Read the verse aloud, giving particular attention to the words “inundated with ecstatic love.”

Live this todaySinging Together in Ecstatic LoveThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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