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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.161
আচম্বিতে এক গোপ বংশী বাজাইল ।
শুনি’ মহাপ্ৰভুর মহা-প্রেমাবেশ হৈল ॥ ১৬১ ॥
ācambite eka gopa vaṁśī bājāila
śuni’ mahāprabhura mahā-premāveśa haila
Suddenly a cowherd boy blew on his flute, and immediately the Lord was struck with ecstatic love.
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A cowherd boy suddenly blew on his flute.
The Lord’s response was immediate.
On hearing the flute, the Lord was struck with ecstatic love.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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 stopping near a village on the way to Prayāga, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fainted in ecstatic love. Some Pāṭhāna soldiers who were passing through saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and falsely concluded that the Lord’s associates, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya and others, had killed the Lord with a poison named dhuturā and were taking His wealth.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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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”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “cowherd”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What impresses me about the immediacy of the Lord’s ecstatic love?
Read this verse aloud once today, then pause to reflect on the Lord’s response to the flute.
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