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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 2.14
এই মত অদ্ভুত-ভাব শরীরে প্রকাশ ।
মনেতে শূন্যতা, বাক্যে হাহা-হুতাশ ॥ ১৪ ॥
ei mata adbhuta-bhāva śarīre prakāśa
manete śūnyatā, vākye hā-hā-hutāśa
In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to manifest wonderful ecstatic symptoms. His mind appeared vacant, and there were only hopelessness and disappointment in His words.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu manifested wonderful ecstatic symptoms.
His mind appeared vacant.
His words expressed only hopelessness and disappointment.
Overwhelming divine separation. A preview of the last years reveals the Lord’s intense separation from Kṛṣṇa.
The mood of Madhya 2 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:
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the contrast between His wonderful ecstatic symptoms and His words of disappointment?
Pause over the words “appeared vacant,” then reread what the verse says about His speech.
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