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[[Category:Absorbed In Ecstatic Love|1]]
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi5191_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="792" link="CC Adi 5.191" link_text="CC Adi 5.191">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.191|CC Adi 5.191, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">His devotees, dressed like cowherd boys, surrounded His feet like so many bees and also chanted "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa," absorbed in ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17232_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2167" link="CC Adi 17.232" link_text="CC Adi 17.232">
<div class="heading">The tailor then began to dance, saying, "I have seen! I have seen!" He became absorbed in ecstatic love and began to dance with Lord Caitanya.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.232|CC Adi 17.232, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Saying "I have seen! I have seen!" and dancing in ecstatic love as though mad, he became a first-class Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>There was a Muslim tailor near the house of Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura who used to sew the garments of the family. One day he was very pleased with the dancing of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; indeed, he was enchanted. The Lord, understanding his attitude, showed him His original form as Kṛṣṇa. The tailor then began to dance, saying, "I have seen! I have seen!" He became absorbed in ecstatic love and began to dance with Lord Caitanya. Thus he became one of the foremost Vaiṣṇava adherents of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya4136_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="733" link="CC Madhya 4.136" link_text="CC Madhya 4.136">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.136|CC Madhya 4.136, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the story about the pot of sweet rice was explained to him in detail, Śrī Mādhavendra Purī at once became absorbed in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11150_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2417" link="CC Madhya 11.150" link_text="CC Madhya 11.150">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.150|CC Madhya 11.150, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Immediately upon hearing this, Śivānanda Sena became absorbed in ecstatic love and fell down on the ground, offering obeisances to the Lord. He then began to recite the following verse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12212_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2720" link="CC Madhya 12.212" link_text="CC Madhya 12.212">
<div class="heading">The author has made these comparisons in order to describe Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu while the Lord was deeply absorbed in ecstatic love for Lord Jagannātha.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.212|CC Madhya 12.212, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu usually saw Lord Jagannātha from a distance, standing behind the column of Garuḍa. But because he had not seen Lord Jagannātha for fifteen days, Caitanya Mahāprabhu felt great separation from Him. In great eagerness, Caitanya Mahāprabhu crossed the meeting hall and entered the room where food was offered, just to see the face of Lord Jagannātha. In verse 210, this action is called maryādā-laṅghana, a violation of the regulative principles. This indicates that one should not come very near a superior. Both the Lord's Deity form and the spiritual master should be seen from a distant place. This is called maryādā. Otherwise, as it is said, familiarity breeds contempt. Sometimes coming too near the Deity or the spiritual master degrades the neophyte devotee. Personal servants of the Deity and the spiritual master should therefore always be very careful, for negligence may overcome them in their duty.</p>
<p>Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's eyes have been compared to thirsty bumblebees, and Śrī Jagannātha's eyes have been compared to blossoming lotus flowers. The author has made these comparisons in order to describe Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu while the Lord was deeply absorbed in ecstatic love for Lord Jagannātha.</p>
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<div class="heading">As soon as the beggars chanted the holy name, "Haribol," they were immediately absorbed in ecstatic love of Godhead.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.46|CC Madhya 14.46, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As soon as the beggars chanted the holy name, "Haribol," they were immediately absorbed in ecstatic love of Godhead. In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu performed wonderful pastimes.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>To feel the emotion of ecstatic love of God is to be on the transcendental platform. If one can keep himself in that transcendental position, he will surely return home, back to Godhead. In the spiritual world there are no higher, middle or lower classes. This is confirmed in the Īśopaniṣad (7):</p>
:yasmin sarvāṇi bhūtāny ātmaivābhūd vijānataḥ
:tatra ko mohaḥ kaḥ śoka ekatvam anupaśyataḥ
<p>"One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him?"</p>
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<div class="heading">"Rādhārāṇī is grown up, and Her character is equipoised. She is always deeply absorbed in ecstatic love and always feeling in the mood of a left-wing gopī."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.161|CC Madhya 14.161, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Rādhārāṇī is grown up, and Her character is equipoised. She is always deeply absorbed in ecstatic love and always feeling in the mood of a left-wing gopī."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The left wing and right wing of the gopīs has been explained by Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Sakhī-prakaraṇa 26 and 32). The left wing is described in this way:</p>
:mana-grahe sadodyuktā tac-chaithilye ca kopanā
:abhedyā nāyake prāyaḥ krūrā vāmeti kīrtyate
<p>"A gopī who is always eager to be jealously angered, who is very enthusiastic for that position, who immediately becomes angry when defeated, who is never under the control of a hero, and who always opposes Him is called a vāmā, or a left-wing gopī."</p>
<p>Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī describes the right-wing gopīs in this way:</p>
:asahyā māna-nirbandhe nāyake yukta-vādinī
:sāmabhis tena bhedyā ca dakṣiṇā parikīrtitā
<p>"A gopī who cannot tolerate womanly anger, who speaks suitable words to the hero, and who is satisfied by His sweet words is called a dakṣiṇā, or a right-wing gopī."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15123_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3319" link="CC Madhya 15.123" link_text="CC Madhya 15.123">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.123|CC Madhya 15.123, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Just by seeing the peacock-feathered fan, Mukunda dāsa became absorbed in ecstatic love of Godhead and fell from the high platform onto the ground."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya16279_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3766" link="CC Madhya 16.279" link_text="CC Madhya 16.279">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.279|CC Madhya 16.279, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Being encouraged by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's words, Gadādhara Paṇḍita became absorbed in ecstatic love. Immediately clasping the lotus feet of the Lord, he began to speak with great humility.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya17148_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3924" link="CC Madhya 17.148" link_text="CC Madhya 17.148">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.148|CC Madhya 17.148, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Feeling separation from the Lord, the three used to meet and glorify the holy qualities of the Lord. Thus they were absorbed in ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya17226_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4002" link="CC Madhya 17.226" link_text="CC Madhya 17.226">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.226|CC Madhya 17.226, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mind was absorbed in ecstatic love at Jagannātha Purī, but when He passed along the road on the way to Vṛndāvana, that love increased a hundred times.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya17228229_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4004" link="CC Madhya 17.228-229" link_text="CC Madhya 17.228-229">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.228-229|CC Madhya 17.228-229, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was elsewhere, the very name of Vṛndāvana was sufficient to increase His ecstatic love. Now, when He was actually traveling in the Vṛndāvana forest, His mind was absorbed in great ecstatic love day and night. He ate and bathed simply out of habit.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1999_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4338" link="CC Madhya 19.99" link_text="CC Madhya 19.99">
<div class="heading">The Lord was absorbed in ecstatic love, and His mind and body slackened.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.99|CC Madhya 19.99, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu requested Raghupati Upādhyāya to continue speaking about the pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Thus the Lord was absorbed in ecstatic love, and His mind and body slackened.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Our minds and bodies are always engaged in material activities. When they are activated on the spiritual platform, they slacken on the material platform.</p>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAntya557_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="951" link="CC Antya 5.57" link_text="CC Antya 5.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.57|CC Antya 5.57, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing this, Rāmānanda Rāya became absorbed in ecstatic love and began to speak with great transcendental pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya5107_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1000" link="CC Antya 5.107" link_text="CC Antya 5.107">
<div class="heading">"Hearing the poetry of a person who has no transcendental knowledge and who writes about the relationships between man and woman simply causes unhappiness, whereas hearing the words of a devotee fully absorbed in ecstatic love causes great happiness."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.107|CC Antya 5.107, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Hearing the poetry of a person who has no transcendental knowledge and who writes about the relationships between man and woman simply causes unhappiness, whereas hearing the words of a devotee fully absorbed in ecstatic love causes great happiness."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Grāmya-kavi refers to a poet or writer such as the authors of novels and other fiction who write only about the relationships between man and woman. Vidagdha-ātmīya-vākya, however, refers to words written by a devotee who fully understands pure devotional service. Such devotees, who follow the paramparā system, are sometimes described as sajātīyāśaya-snigdha, or "pleasing to the same class of people." Only the poetry and other writings of such devotees are accepted with great happiness by devotees.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya690_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1147" link="CC Antya 6.90" link_text="CC Antya 6.90">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.90|CC Antya 6.90, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the confidential devotees who were cowherd boys, headed by Śrī Rāmadāsa, were absorbed in ecstatic love. They thought the bank of the Ganges to be the bank of the Yamunā.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya713_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1399" link="CC Antya 7.13" link_text="CC Antya 7.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 7.13|CC Antya 7.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"You have manifested the holy name of Kṛṣṇa throughout the entire world. Anyone who sees You is immediately absorbed in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa."</p>
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<div class="heading">When Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the temple of Lord Jagannātha, He was absorbed in ecstatic love and saw only Kṛṣṇa.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14 Summary|CC Antya 14 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the Fourteenth Chapter. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa resulted in highly elevated transcendental madness. When He was standing near the Garuḍa-stambha and praying to Lord Jagannātha, a woman from Orissa put her foot on the Lord's shoulder in her great eagerness to see Lord Jagannātha. Govinda chastised her for this, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu praised her eagerness. When Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the temple of Lord Jagannātha, He was absorbed in ecstatic love and saw only Kṛṣṇa. As soon as He perceived this woman, however, His external consciousness immediately returned, and He saw Jagannātha, Baladeva and Subhadrā. Caitanya Mahāprabhu also saw Kṛṣṇa in a dream, and He was overwhelmed with ecstatic love. When He could no longer see Kṛṣṇa, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu compared Himself to a yogī and described how that yogī was seeing Vṛndāvana. Sometimes all the transcendental ecstatic symptoms were manifest in Him. One night, Govinda and Svarūpa Dāmodara noticed that although the three doors to the Lord's room were closed and locked, the Lord was not present inside. Seeing this, Svarūpa Dāmodara and the other devotees went outside and saw the Lord lying unconscious by the gate known as Siṁha-dvāra. His body had become unusually long, and the joints of His bones were loose. The devotees gradually brought Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu back to His senses by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, and then they took Him back to His residence.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1529_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2517" link="CC Antya 15.29" link_text="CC Antya 15.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.29|CC Antya 15.29, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya mistook that garden for Vṛndāvana and very quickly entered it. Absorbed in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa, He wandered throughout the garden, searching for Him.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya16141_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2727" link="CC Antya 16.141" link_text="CC Antya 16.141">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 16.141|CC Antya 16.141, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon hearing the recitation of this verse, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became absorbed in ecstatic love, and with a greatly agitated mind He began to explain its meaning like a madman.</p>
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