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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

Madhya 6.206 Madhya 6.208

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.207

শুনি’ সুখে প্রভু তাঁরে কৈল আলিঙ্গন ।

ভট্টাচার্য প্রেমাবেশে হৈল অচেতন ॥ ২০৭ ॥

śuni’ sukhe prabhu tāṅre kaila āliṅgana

bhaṭṭācārya premāveśe haila acetana

Translation

After hearing the one hundred verses, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu happily embraced Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, who was immediately overwhelmed in ecstatic love of Godhead and fell unconscious.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord’s Embrace and Ecstatic Love

1
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard the one hundred verses.
2
He happily embraced Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya.
3
Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya was immediately overwhelmed in ecstatic love of Godhead and fell unconscious.

How it feels

Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.

The mood of Madhya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

The Bhaṭṭācārya then recited one hundred verses in praise of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and offered his obeisances. After this, Gopīnātha Ācārya and all the others, having seen the wonderful potencies of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, became very joyful.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

śuni’hearing
sukhein happiness
prabhuLord Caitanya Mahāprabhu
tāṅreSārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
kailadid
āliṅganaembracing
bhaṭṭācāryaSārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
prema-āveśein the ecstasy of love of God
hailabecame
acetanaunconscious

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”, “ecstatic love”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “embraced”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What touches me about the Lord’s happy embrace of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya?

Practice

Spend a quiet moment reflecting on the Lord’s happiness as He embraced Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya.

Live this todayThe Lord’s Embrace and Ecstatic LoveThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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