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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.7
আঁখি মুদি’ প্রভু প্রেমে ভূমিতে শয়ান ।
নৃপতি নৈপুণ্যে করে পাদ-সম্বাহন ॥ ৭ ॥
āṅkhi mudi’ prabhu preme bhūmite śayāna
nṛpati naipuṇye kare pāda-saṁvāhana
As Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lay on the raised platform with His eyes closed in ecstatic love and emotion, the King very expertly began to massage His legs.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lay on a raised platform with His eyes closed.
He was absorbed in ecstatic love and emotion.
The King very expertly began to massage His legs.
Intimacy and ecstatic play. Mercy to Pratāparudra and discussion of the gopīs reveal deep relational sweetness.
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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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 14
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In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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