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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.99
প্রভু কহেন, — কহ, তেঁহো পড়ে কৃষ্ণলীলা ।
প্রেমাবেশে প্রভুর দেহ-মন আলুয়াইলা ॥ ৯৯ ॥
prabhu kahena, — kaha, teṅho paḍe kṛṣṇa-līlā
premāveśe prabhura deha-mana āluyāilā
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu requested Raghupati Upādhyāya to continue speaking about the pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Thus the Lord was absorbed in ecstatic love, and His mind and body slackened.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu requested Raghupati Upādhyāya to continue speaking about Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes.
The Lord became absorbed in ecstatic love, and His mind and body slackened.
Our minds and bodies are always engaged in material activities. When activated on the spiritual platform, they slacken on the material platform.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Empowerment and hope. The seed of bhakti is received, planted, and watered; intimate realization becomes transmissible.
The mood of Madhya 19 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:
After this, a brāhmaṇa scholar named Raghupati Upādhyāya arrived and discussed Kṛṣṇa consciousness with the Lord. Kavirāja Gosvāmī then extensively describes the living condition of Śrī Rūpa and Sanātana at Vṛndāvana.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How much of your attention is occupied by material activities rather than hearing about Śrī Kṛṣṇa?
Set aside one minute from your usual activities to read attentively about Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes.
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