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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_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="CCMadhya1116_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2286" link="CC Madhya 11.16" link_text="CC Madhya 11.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.16|CC Madhya 11.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon meeting Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Rāmānanda Rāya offered his obeisances. The Lord embraced him, and both of them began to cry in the great ecstasy of love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1125_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2295" link="CC Madhya 11.25" link_text="CC Madhya 11.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.25|CC Madhya 11.25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“My Lord, I don’t think that there is even a fraction of Mahārāja Pratāparudra's loving ecstasy in me.”</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11129_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2397" link="CC Madhya 11.129" link_text="CC Madhya 11.129">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.129|CC Madhya 11.129, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After this, all the devotees, headed by Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura, offered prayers to the lotus feet of the Lord, and the Lord embraced each and every one of them in great love and ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13Summary_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2730" link="CC Madhya 13 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 13 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13 Summary|CC Madhya 13 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The road to the temple led along a broad, sandy beach, and on both sides of the road were residential quarters, houses and gardens. Along that road the servants called gauḍas began to pull the cars. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu divided His saṅkīrtana party into seven divisions. With two mṛdaṅgas in each division, there were altogether fourteen mṛdaṅgas. While performing kīrtana, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited various symptoms of transcendental ecstasy, and Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exchanged Their feelings very blissfully. When the cars reached the place known as Balagaṇḍi, the devotees offered the Deities simple food. At this time, in a nearby garden, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His devotees took a brief rest from the dancing.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1349_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2779" link="CC Madhya 13.49" link_text="CC Madhya 13.49">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.49|CC Madhya 13.49, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the Vaiṣṇavas came together like an assembly of clouds. As the devotees chanted the holy names in great ecstasy, tears fell from their eyes like rain.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1391_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2821" link="CC Madhya 13.91" link_text="CC Madhya 13.91">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.91|CC Madhya 13.91, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">With his hands on the shoulders of Haricandana, King Pratāparudra could see Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu dancing, and the King felt great ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13100_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2830" link="CC Madhya 13.100" link_text="CC Madhya 13.100">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.100|CC Madhya 13.100, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The goddess of fortune, Subhadrā, and Lord Balarāma both felt great happiness and ecstasy within their hearts. Indeed, they were seen smiling at the dancing.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13101_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2831" link="CC Madhya 13.101" link_text="CC Madhya 13.101">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.101|CC Madhya 13.101, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced and jumped high, eight wonderful transformations indicative of divine ecstasy were seen in His body. All these symptoms were visible simultaneously.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13104_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2834" link="CC Madhya 13.104" link_text="CC Madhya 13.104">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.104|CC Madhya 13.104, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's whole body flowed with perspiration and at the same time oozed blood. He made the sounds "jaja gaga, jaja gaga" in a voice choked with ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13119_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2849" link="CC Madhya 13.119" link_text="CC Madhya 13.119">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.119|CC Madhya 13.119, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In his Anubhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura describes the ecstasy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as follows. After giving up the company of the gopīs in Vṛndāvana, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the son of Mahārāja Nanda, engaged in His pastimes at Dvārakā. When Kṛṣṇa went to Kurukṣetra with His brother and sister and others from Dvārakā, He again met the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalita, that is, Kṛṣṇa Himself assuming the part of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in order to understand Kṛṣṇa. Lord Jagannātha-deva is Kṛṣṇa, and Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13119_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2849" link="CC Madhya 13.119" link_text="CC Madhya 13.119">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.119|CC Madhya 13.119, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Caitanya Mahāprabhu fell behind the Ratha car, Jagannātha-deva, Kṛṣṇa Himself, understood the mind of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Therefore, Jagannātha sometimes fell behind the dancing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to indicate to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī that He had not forgotten. Thus Lord Jagannātha would stop the forward march of the ratha and wait at a standstill. In this way Lord Jagannātha agreed that without the ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī He could not feel satisfied. While Jagannātha was thus waiting, Gaurasundara, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in His ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, immediately came forward to Kṛṣṇa. At such times, Lord Jagannātha would proceed ahead very slowly. These competitive exchanges were all part of the love affair between Kṛṣṇa and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. In that competition between Lord Caitanya's ecstasy for Jagannātha and Jagannātha's ecstasy for Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, Caitanya Mahāprabhu emerged successful.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13120_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2850" link="CC Madhya 13.120" link_text="CC Madhya 13.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.120|CC Madhya 13.120, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was dancing, His ecstasy changed. Raising His two arms, He began to recite the following verse in a loud voice.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13125_12" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2855" link="CC Madhya 13.125" link_text="CC Madhya 13.125">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.125|CC Madhya 13.125, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Similarly, after seeing Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu awoke with the ecstasy of the gopīs. Being absorbed in this ecstasy, He asked Svarūpa Dāmodara to sing the refrain.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13136_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2866" link="CC Madhya 13.136" link_text="CC Madhya 13.136">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.136|CC Madhya 13.136, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.82.48). The gopīs were never interested in karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga or dhyāna-yoga. They were simply interested in bhakti-yoga. Unless they were forced, they never liked to meditate on the lotus feet of the Lord. Rather, they preferred to take the lotus feet of the Lord and place them on their breasts. Sometimes they regretted that their breasts were so hard, fearing that Kṛṣṇa might not be very pleased to keep His soft lotus feet there. When those lotus feet were pricked by the grains of sand in the Vṛndāvana pasturing ground, the gopīs were pained and began to cry. The gopīs wanted to keep Kṛṣṇa at home always, and in this way their minds were absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Such pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness can arise only in Vṛndāvana. Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu began to explain His own mind, which was saturated in the ecstasy of the gopīs.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13165_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2895" link="CC Madhya 13.165" link_text="CC Madhya 13.165">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.165|CC Madhya 13.165, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In emotional ecstasy, Caitanya Mahāprabhu would sometimes sit on the ground and, looking down, would write on the ground with His finger.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13183_15" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2913" link="CC Madhya 13.183" link_text="CC Madhya 13.183">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.183|CC Madhya 13.183, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Not even Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, Kāśīśvara or Govinda took care of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu when He fell down. Nityānanda was in great ecstasy, and Kāśīśvara and Govinda were elsewhere.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13207_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2937" link="CC Madhya 13.207" link_text="CC Madhya 13.207">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.207|CC Madhya 13.207, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced down the main road in great ecstasy before Lord Jagannātha, the master of Nīlācala, who was sitting on His car. Overwhelmed by the transcendental bliss of dancing and surrounded by Vaiṣṇavas who sang the holy names, He manifested waves of ecstatic love of Godhead. When will Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again be visible to my vision?</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1499_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3039" link="CC Madhya 14.99" link_text="CC Madhya 14.99">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.99|CC Madhya 14.99, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As Vāsudeva Datta sang a different song beneath each and every tree, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced there alone in great ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14125_18" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3064" link="CC Madhya 14.125" link_text="CC Madhya 14.125">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.125|CC Madhya 14.125, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“All the pastimes with the gopīs that take place in those gardens are very confidential ecstasies of Lord Kṛṣṇa. No one knows them.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14152_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3091" link="CC Madhya 14.152" link_text="CC Madhya 14.152">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.152|CC Madhya 14.152, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Some of these heroines are very talkative, some are mild, and some are equipoised. Each heroine, according to her own character, increases Śrī Kṛṣṇa's loving ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14165_20" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3104" link="CC Madhya 14.165" link_text="CC Madhya 14.165">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.165|CC Madhya 14.165, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s love is a highly advanced ecstasy. All Her dealings are completely pure and devoid of material tinge. Indeed, Her dealings are ten times purer than gold.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14170_21" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3109" link="CC Madhya 14.170" link_text="CC Madhya 14.170">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.170|CC Madhya 14.170, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Now hear a description of different ecstasies, beginning with kila-kiñcita. With these ecstatic ornaments, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī enchants the mind of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14180_22" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3119" link="CC Madhya 14.180" link_text="CC Madhya 14.180">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.180|CC Madhya 14.180, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"May the sight of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī"s kila-kiñcita ecstasy, which is like a bouquet, bring good fortune to all. When Śrī Kṛṣṇa blocked Rādhārāṇī’s way to the dāna-ghāṭi, there was laughter within Her heart. Her eyes grew bright, and fresh tears flowed from Her eyes, reddening them. Due to Her sweet relationship with Kṛṣṇa, Her eyes were enthusiastic, and when Her crying subsided, She appeared even more beautiful.’</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14186_23" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3125" link="CC Madhya 14.186" link_text="CC Madhya 14.186">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.186|CC Madhya 14.186, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The symptoms of various ecstasies that become manifest at that time are called vilāsa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14230_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3169" link="CC Madhya 14.230" link_text="CC Madhya 14.230">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.230|CC Madhya 14.230, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard these discussions about the pure transcendental mellow of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Absorbed in transcendental ecstasy, the Lord began to dance.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15Summary_25" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3197" link="CC Madhya 15 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 15 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15 Summary|CC Madhya 15 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in return, worshiped Advaita Ācārya with the flowers and tulasī that remained on the offered plate and said a mantra, yo ‘si so ‘si namo ‘stu te ("Whatever You are, You are—but I offer My respects unto You"). Then Advaita Ācārya Prabhu invited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for prasādam. When Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His devotees performed the Nandotsava ceremony, the Lord dressed Himself as a cowherd boy. Thus the ceremony was very jubilant. Then the Lord and His devotees observed Vijayā-daśamī, the day of victory when Lord Rāmacandra conquered Laṅkā. The devotees all became soldiers of Lord Rāmacandra, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in the ecstasy of Hanumān, manifested various transcendentally blissful activities. Thereafter, the Lord and His devotees observed various other ceremonies.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1529_26" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3226" link="CC Madhya 15.29" link_text="CC Madhya 15.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.29|CC Madhya 15.29, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In ecstasy, Kānāñi Khuṭiyā, who was dressed as Nanda Mahārāja, and Jagannātha Māhiti, who was dressed as mother Yaśodā, distributed all the riches they had stocked at home.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1531_27" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3228" link="CC Madhya 15.31" link_text="CC Madhya 15.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.31|CC Madhya 15.31, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In great ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to His residence. In this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, known as Gaurāṅga-sundara, performed various pastimes.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1534_28" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3231" link="CC Madhya 15.34" link_text="CC Madhya 15.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.34|CC Madhya 15.34, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the ecstasy of Hanumān, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu angrily said, "Where is that rascal Rāvaṇa? He has kidnapped the universal mother, Sītā. Now I shall kill him and all his family."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1535_29" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3232" link="CC Madhya 15.35" link_text="CC Madhya 15.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.35|CC Madhya 15.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone became very much astonished to see the emotional ecstasy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and everyone began to chant, "All glories! All glories!" again and again.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15237_30" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3431" link="CC Madhya 15.237" link_text="CC Madhya 15.237">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.237|CC Madhya 15.237, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.6.46). In the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, the dancing in ecstasy and the eating of the remnants of food offered to the Lord are very, very important. One may be illiterate or incapable of understanding the philosophy, but if he partakes of these three items, he will certainly be liberated without delay.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15296_31" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3490" link="CC Madhya 15.296" link_text="CC Madhya 15.296">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.296|CC Madhya 15.296, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter, Amogha became an unalloyed devotee of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He danced in ecstasy and peacefully chanted the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya16281_32" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3768" link="CC Madhya 16.281" link_text="CC Madhya 16.281">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.281|CC Madhya 16.281, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who goes to Vṛndāvana with such materialistic vision cannot derive any spiritual benefit. Such a person is not convinced that Kṛṣṇa and Vṛndāvana are identical. Since they are identical, Vṛndāvana is as worshipable as Lord Kṛṣṇa. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's vision (mora-mana—vṛndāvana) is different from the vision of an ordinary materialistic person. At the Ratha-yātrā festival, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, absorbed in the ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, dragged Lord Kṛṣṇa back to Vṛndāvana-dhāma. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu spoke of this in the verses beginning āhuś ca te ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.136|CC Madhya 13.136]]).</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1726_33" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3804" link="CC Madhya 17.26" link_text="CC Madhya 17.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.26|CC Madhya 17.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the Lord passed through the jungle in great ecstasy, packs of tigers, elephants, rhinoceros and boars came, and the Lord passed right through them.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1731_34" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3809" link="CC Madhya 17.31" link_text="CC Madhya 17.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.31|CC Madhya 17.31, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are neophytes or even a little progressed in devotional service should not try to imitate the mahā-bhāgavata. Rather, they should only follow in his footsteps. The word anukara means "imitating," and anusara means "trying to follow in the footsteps." We should not try to imitate the activities of a mahā-bhāgavata or Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Our best efforts should be exerted in trying to follow them according to our ability. The mahā-bhāgavata's heart is completely freed from material contamination, and he can become very dear even to fierce animals like tigers and elephants. Indeed, the mahā-bhāgavata treats them as his very intimate friends. On this platform there is no question of envy. When the Lord was passing through the forest, He was in ecstasy, thinking the forest to be Vṛndāvana. He was simply searching for Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1732_35" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3810" link="CC Madhya 17.32" link_text="CC Madhya 17.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.32|CC Madhya 17.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The elephants whose bodies were touched by the water splashed by the Lord began to chant "Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!" and dance and sing in ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1733_36" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3811" link="CC Madhya 17.33" link_text="CC Madhya 17.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.33|CC Madhya 17.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Some of the elephants fell to the ground, and some screamed in ecstasy. Seeing this, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya was completely astonished.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1750_37" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3827" link="CC Madhya 17.50" link_text="CC Madhya 17.50">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.50|CC Madhya 17.50, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord did not always manifest His ecstasy. Being afraid of a great assembly of people, the Lord kept His ecstasy concealed.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya17154_38" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3930" link="CC Madhya 17.154" link_text="CC Madhya 17.154">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.154|CC Madhya 17.154, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While the Lord was going to Mathurā, He came across the river Yamunā several times, and as soon as He saw the river Yamunā, He would immediately jump in, falling unconscious in the water in the ecstasy of love of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya183_39" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4013" link="CC Madhya 18.3" link_text="CC Madhya 18.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 18.3|CC Madhya 18.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced in ecstasy, but when He arrived at Āriṭ-grāma, His sense perception was awakened.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya19178_40" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4417" link="CC Madhya 19.178" link_text="CC Madhya 19.178">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.178|CC Madhya 19.178, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The basic aspects of prema, when gradually increasing to different states, are affection, abhorrence, love, attachment, further attachment, ecstasy and great ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya19180_41" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4419" link="CC Madhya 19.180" link_text="CC Madhya 19.180">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.180|CC Madhya 19.180, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Attachment for Kṛṣṇa never wanes; it increases more and more as one attains different stages. All the stages together are called sthāyibhāva, or continuous existence of ecstasy. The nine forms of devotional service are śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23]]). When continuous love of Godhead is mixed with the processes of devotional service, it is called vibhāva, anubhāva, sāttvika and vyabhicārī. The devotee thus enjoys a variety of transcendental bliss. In his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura states that anubhāva can be divided into thirteen categories: (1) dancing, (2) rolling on the ground, (3) singing, (4) yelling, (5) jumping, (6) making loud noises, (7) yawning, (8) heavy breathing, (9) not caring for public opinion, (10) discharging saliva, (11) roaring laughter, (12) unsteadiness and (13) hiccuping. These are the symptoms of anubhāva. Thus the transcendental mellows are experienced in different stages. Similarly, there are many other forms of expression that have been analytically studied by the Gosvāmīs. In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Rūpa Gosvāmī gives each and every symptom a particular name.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21104_42" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4997" link="CC Madhya 21.104" link_text="CC Madhya 21.104">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.104|CC Madhya 21.104, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Inferior to that is His representation in the spiritual sky, and inferior to that is His representation in the external energy (Devī-dhāma). A mere drop of Kṛṣṇa's sweetness can drown these three worlds—Goloka Vṛndāvana, Hari-dhāma (Vaikuṇṭhaloka) and Devī-dhāma (the material world). Everywhere, Kṛṣṇa's beauty merges everyone in the ecstasy of transcendental bliss. Actually the activities of yogamāyā are absent in the spiritual sky and the Vaikuṇṭha planets. She simply works in the supreme planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, and she works to manifest the activities of Kṛṣṇa when He descends to the material universe to please His innumerable devotees within the material world. Thus a replica of the Goloka Vṛndāvana planet and the pastimes there is manifested on this planet on a specific tract of land—Bhauma Vṛndāvana, the Vṛndāvana-dhāma on this planet.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21135_43" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5028" link="CC Madhya 21.135" link_text="CC Madhya 21.135">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.135|CC Madhya 21.135, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"The transcendental form of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is compared to an ocean of sweetness. A particularly extraordinary vision is the moon above that ocean—Śrī Kṛṣṇa's face—and an even more extraordinary vision is His smile, which is sweeter than sweet and is like shining beams of moonlight." While speaking of these things with Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu began to remember one thing after another. Moving His hands in ecstasy, He recited a verse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21145_44" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5038" link="CC Madhya 21.145" link_text="CC Madhya 21.145">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.145|CC Madhya 21.145, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu admitted that He was speaking like a madman, which He should not have done for the understanding of those who are externally situated. Statements about Kṛṣṇa's body, His characteristics and His flute would appear like a madman's statements to a mundane person. It was actually a fact that Kṛṣṇa wanted to reveal Himself to Sanātana Gosvāmī due to His specific mercy upon him. Somehow or other, Kṛṣṇa explained Himself and His flute to Sanātana Gosvāmī through the mouth of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who appeared as though mad. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu admitted that He wanted to tell Sanātana Gosvāmī something else, but somehow or other, in transcendental ecstasy, He spoke of a different subject matter.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2337_45" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5239" link="CC Madhya 23.37" link_text="CC Madhya 23.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.37|CC Madhya 23.37, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"O Lord Puṇḍarīkākṣa, while chanting Your holy name with tears in my eyes, when shall I dance in ecstasy on the bank of the Yamunā?"</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2342_46" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5244" link="CC Madhya 23.42" link_text="CC Madhya 23.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.42|CC Madhya 23.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Love of Godhead increases and is manifested as affection, counterlove, love, attachment, subattachment, ecstasy and sublime ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2346_47" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5248" link="CC Madhya 23.46" link_text="CC Madhya 23.46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.46|CC Madhya 23.46, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (2.5.1), sthāyi-bhāva, permanent ecstasy, is thus described:</p>
:aviruddhān viruddhāṁś ca bhāvān yo vaśatāṁ nayan
:su-rājeva virājeta sa sthāyī bhāva ucyate
:sthāyī bhāvo ‘tra sa proktaḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-viṣayā ratiḥ
<p>"These moods (bhāvas) bring under control the favorable ecstasies (such as laughing) and unfavorable ecstasies (such as anger). When these moods continue to remain as kings, they are called sthāyi-bhāva, or permanent ecstasies. Continuous ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa is called permanent ecstasy."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2347_48" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5249" link="CC Madhya 23.47" link_text="CC Madhya 23.47">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.47|CC Madhya 23.47, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“When the permanent ecstasies (neutrality, servitorship and so on) are mixed with other ingredients, devotional service in love of Godhead is transformed and becomes composed of transcendental mellows.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2347_49" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5249" link="CC Madhya 23.47" link_text="CC Madhya 23.47">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.47|CC Madhya 23.47, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Love for Kṛṣṇa, Keśava, as previously described, reaches the supreme state of being composed of mellows when its ingredients are fulfilled. By means of vibhāva, anubhāva, sāttvika and vyabhicārī, hearing and chanting are activated, and the devotee is able to taste love for Kṛṣṇa. Then attachment for Kṛṣṇa, or permanent ecstasy (sthāyi-bhāva), becomes the mellow of devotional service (bhakti-rasa)."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2348_50" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5250" link="CC Madhya 23.48" link_text="CC Madhya 23.48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.48|CC Madhya 23.48, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Permanent ecstasy becomes a more and more relishable transcendental mellow through the mixture of special ecstasy, subordinate ecstasy, natural ecstasy and transitory ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2349_51" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5251" link="CC Madhya 23.49" link_text="CC Madhya 23.49">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.49|CC Madhya 23.49, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Yogurt mixed with sugar candy, black pepper and camphor is very palatable and tasty. Similarly, when permanent ecstasy mixes with other ecstatic symptoms, it becomes unprecedentedly tasty.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2350_52" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5252" link="CC Madhya 23.50" link_text="CC Madhya 23.50">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.50|CC Madhya 23.50, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“There are two kinds of particular ecstasies (vibhāva). One is called the support, and the other is called the awakening. The vibration of Kṛṣṇa's flute is an example of the awakening, and Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself is an example of the support.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2351_53" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5253" link="CC Madhya 23.51" link_text="CC Madhya 23.51">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.51|CC Madhya 23.51, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The subordinate ecstasies are smiling, dancing and singing, as well as different manifestations in the body. The natural ecstasies, such as being stunned, are considered among the subordinate ecstasies (anubhāva).</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2352_54" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5254" link="CC Madhya 23.52" link_text="CC Madhya 23.52">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.52|CC Madhya 23.52, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"There are thirty-three transitory elements, known as vyabhicārī ecstatic emotions. They especially wander about the permanent sentiments as assistants. They are to be known by words, by different symptoms seen in the limbs and in other parts of the body, and by the peculiar conditions of the heart. Because they set in motion the progress of the permanent sentiments, they are specifically called sañcārī, or impelling principles. These impelling principles rise up and fall back in the permanent sentiments of ecstatic love like waves in an ocean of ecstasy. Consequently they are called vyabhicārī."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2355_55" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5257" link="CC Madhya 23.55" link_text="CC Madhya 23.55">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.55|CC Madhya 23.55, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura says that the mellow of neutrality increases to simple love of Godhead. In the mellow of servitorship, love of Godhead increases beyond that to affection, counterlove (anger based on love), love and attachment. Similarly, the mellow of friendship increases to affection, counterlove, love, attachment and subattachment. It is the same with the mellow of parental affection. The special feature of the mellow of friendship exhibited by personalities like Subala is that it increases from fraternal affection to counterlove, to spontaneous attachment, to subordinate attachment, and finally to the ecstasy where all the ecstatic symptoms continuously exist.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2357_56" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5259" link="CC Madhya 23.57" link_text="CC Madhya 23.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.57|CC Madhya 23.57, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Only in the conjugal mellow are there two ecstatic symptoms called rūḍha (advanced) and adhirūḍha (highly advanced). The advanced ecstasies are found among the queens of Dvārakā, and the highly advanced ecstasies are found among the gopīs.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The adhirūḍha ecstasies are explained in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Sthāyi-bhāva-prakaraṇa 170):</p>
:rūḍhoktebhyo ‘nubhāvebhyaḥ kām apy āptā viśiṣṭatām
:yatrānubhāvā dṛśyante so ‘dhirūḍho nigadyate
<p>The very sweet attraction of conjugal love increases through affection, counterlove, love, attachment, subattachment, ecstasy and highly advanced ecstasy (mahābhāva). The platform of mahābhāva includes rūḍha and adhirūḍha. These platforms are possible only in conjugal love. Advanced ecstasy is found in Dvārakā, whereas highly advanced ecstasy is found among the gopīs.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2358_57" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5260" link="CC Madhya 23.58" link_text="CC Madhya 23.58">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.58|CC Madhya 23.58, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Highly advanced ecstasy is divided into two categories—mādana and mohana. Meeting together is called mādana, and separation is called mohana.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2438_58" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5354" link="CC Madhya 24.38" link_text="CC Madhya 24.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.38|CC Madhya 24.38, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Lord Kṛṣṇa is so exalted that He is more attractive than anything else and more pleasing than anything else. He is the most sublime abode of bliss. By His own strength, He causes one to forget all other ecstasies.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2569_59" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5741" link="CC Madhya 25.69" link_text="CC Madhya 25.69">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.69|CC Madhya 25.69, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the people were astonished to see the Lord's jubilation and humility and to hear Him talk in ecstasy. Indeed, all the residents of Benares (Kāśī) saw the bodily transformations and were astonished.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25253_60" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5924" link="CC Madhya 25.253" link_text="CC Madhya 25.253">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.253|CC Madhya 25.253, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">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.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25265_61" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5936" link="CC Madhya 25.265" link_text="CC Madhya 25.265">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.265|CC Madhya 25.265, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa consciousness means understanding the truth of Kṛṣṇa, the truth of devotional service, the truth of love of Godhead, the truth of emotional ecstasy, the truth of transcendental mellows and the truth of the pastimes of the Lord.</p>
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