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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 2.12
হস্তপদের সন্ধি সব বিতস্তি-প্রমাণে ।
সন্ধি ছাড়ি’ ভিন্ন হয়ে, চর্ম রহে স্থানে ॥ ১২ ॥
hasta-padera sandhi saba vitasti-pramāṇe
sandhi chāḍi’ bhinna haye, carma rahe sthāne
The joints of His hands and legs would sometimes become separated by eight inches, and they remained connected only by the skin.
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Sometimes the joints of His hands and legs became separated.
The separation measured eight inches.
The joints remained connected only by the skin.
Overwhelming divine separation. A preview of the last years reveals the Lord’s intense separation from Kṛṣṇa.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Thus he has also described some of the pastimes of the antya-līlā. Why he has done so is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 2
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “separated”, “separation”
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Which detail helps you appreciate how extraordinary this bodily condition was?
Read the translation slowly once, noting the extent of the separation and what remained connected.
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