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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.253
তার মধ্যে ব্রজদেবীর ভাবের শ্রবণ ।
স্বরূপ কহিলা, প্রভু কৈলা আস্বাদন ॥ ২৫৩ ॥
tāra madhye vraja-devīra bhāvera śravaṇa
svarūpa kahilā, prabhu kailā āsvādana
Also in the fourteenth chapter is an account of how the emotional ecstasy of the gopīs was described by Svarūpa Dāmodara and tasted by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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The fourteenth chapter also includes an account of the gopīs’ emotional ecstasy.
Svarūpa Dāmodara described that ecstasy.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu tasted the ecstasy that Svarūpa Dāmodara described.
Reconciliation and broad mercy. Opponents turn toward bhakti; the Lord returns to Purī and embraces devotees.
The mood of Madhya 25 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to Jagannātha Purī through the great forest of Jhārikhaṇḍa (Jharkhand) in central India. At the end of this chapter, Kavirāja Gosvāmī sums up the incidents of the madhya-līlā and instructs every living being to read this sublime book of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 25
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīs”, “gopīs’”
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What does this account invite you to notice about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s response to the gopīs’ ecstasy?
Read the translation slowly, noting who described the ecstasy and who tasted it.
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