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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.13
‘অধিরূঢ় ভাব’ যাঁর, তাঁর এ বিকার ।
মনুষ্যের দেহে দেখি, — বড় চমৎকার ॥ ১৩ ॥
‘adhirūḍha bhāva’ yāṅra, tāṅra e vikāra
manuṣyera dehe dekhi, — baḍa camatkāra
Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya considered, “The uncommon ecstatic symptoms of adhirūḍha-bhāva are appearing in the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. This is very wonderful! How are they possible in the body of a human being?”
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Sārvabhauma marveled at the uncommon symptoms of adhirūḍha-bhāva in Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He wondered how they could appear in a human body.
In anurāga, the devotee’s love becomes so ecstatic that even the beloved’s company feels insufficient, and the devotee sees the beloved in different ways. When anurāga reaches its highest limit and becomes perceivable in the body, it is called bhāva.
When bodily symptoms are not distinct, the state is still called anurāga, not bhāva. Intensified bhāva is mahā-bhāva, whose symptoms appear only in eternal associates like the gopīs.
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Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Meanwhile, Gopīnātha Ācārya, the brother-in-law of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, met Mukunda Datta and talked to him about Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s acceptance of sannyāsa and His journey to Jagannātha Purī. After hearing about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s fainting and His being carried to the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, people crowded there to see the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association
Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “associates”
Prema · Love of Godhead
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In this verse: “love”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “bhāva”
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