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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.178
প্রেমাবেশে প্রভু যবে করেন চিৎকার ।
ম্লেচ্ছের হৃদয়ে যেন লাগে শেলধার ॥ ১৭৮ ॥
premāveśe prabhu yabe karena citkāra
mlecchera hṛdaye yena lāge śeladhāra
When the Lord shouted very loudly in ecstatic love, it appeared to the Muslim soldiers that their hearts were struck by thunderbolts.
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The Lord shouted very loudly in ecstatic love.
The Muslim soldiers felt the force of His shout in their hearts.
To the soldiers, it seemed that their hearts were struck by thunderbolts.
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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