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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.162
অচেতন হঞা প্রভু ভূমিতে পড়িলা ।
মুখে ফেনা পড়ে, নাশায় শ্বাস রুদ্ধ হৈলা ॥ ১৬২ ॥
acetana hañā prabhu bhūmite paḍilā
mukhe phenā paḍe, nāsāya śvāsa ruddha hailā
Filled with ecstatic love, the Lord fell to the ground unconscious. He foamed about the mouth, and His breathing stopped.
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The Lord was filled with ecstatic love.
He fell to the ground unconscious.
He foamed about the mouth, and His breathing stopped.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
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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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In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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