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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="CCMadhya1Summary_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1" link="CC Madhya 1 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 1 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1 Summary|CC Madhya 1 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In this chapter there is a summary description of all the pastimes performed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu during the middle period of His activities as well as the six years at the end of His activities. All of these are described in brief. There is also a description of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's ecstasy that occurred when He recited the verse beginning yaḥ kaumāra-haraḥ, as well as a description of how that ecstasy was explained in the verse beginning priyaḥ so ’yaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ, by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Because he wrote that verse, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was specifically blessed by the Lord. There is also a description of the many books written by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī. There is also a description of the meeting between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī in the village known as Rāmakeli.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya141_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="40" link="CC Madhya 1.41" link_text="CC Madhya 1.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.41|CC Madhya 1.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī has given a description of these books. The Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu is a great book of instruction on how to develop devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa and follow the transcendental process. It was finished in the year 1463 Śakābda (A.D. 1541). This book is divided into four parts: pūrva-vibhāga (eastern division), dakṣiṇa-vibhāga (southern division), paścima-vibhāga (western division) and uttara-vibhāga (northern division). In the pūrva-vibhāga, there is a description of the permanent development of devotional service. The general principles of devotional service, the execution of devotional service, ecstasy in devotional service and ultimately the attainment of love of Godhead are described. In this way there are four laharīs (waves) in this division of the ocean of the nectar of devotion.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya141_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="40" link="CC Madhya 1.41" link_text="CC Madhya 1.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.41|CC Madhya 1.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotional service in conjugal love is described briefly in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, but it is very elaborately discussed in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi. This book describes different types of lovers, their assistants, and those who are very dear to Kṛṣṇa. There is also a description of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and other female lovers, as well as various group leaders. Messengers and the constant associates, as well as others who are very dear to Kṛṣṇa, are all described. The book also relates how love of Kṛṣṇa is awakened and describes the ecstatic situation, the devotional situation, permanent ecstasy, disturbed ecstasy, steady ecstasy, different positions of different dresses, feelings of separation, prior attraction, anger in attraction, varieties of loving affairs, separation from the beloved, meeting with the beloved, and both direct and indirect enjoyment between the lover and the beloved. All this has been very elaborately described.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya143_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="42" link="CC Madhya 1.43" link_text="CC Madhya 1.43">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.43|CC Madhya 1.43, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There is also a discussion of how spiritual feelings can be present when one simply imitates them and of how such mellows are far superior to the ordinary mellows of mundane love, and there are descriptions of different ecstasies, the awakening of ecstasy, transcendental qualities, the distinction of dhīrodātta, the utmost attractiveness of conjugal love, the ecstatic features, the permanent ecstatic features, the mellows divided in five transcendental features of direct loving service, and indirect loving service, considered in seven divisions. Finally there is a discussion of overlapping of different rasas, and there are discussions of śānta (neutrality), servitorship, taking shelter, parental love, conjugal love, direct transcendental enjoyment and enjoyment in separation, previous attraction and the glories of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya156_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="55" link="CC Madhya 1.56" link_text="CC Madhya 1.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.56|CC Madhya 1.56, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to sing this song (seita parāṇa-nātha) especially during the latter part of the day, and He would think, "Let Me take Kṛṣṇa and go back to Vṛndāvana." This ecstasy was always filling His heart.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya156_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="55" link="CC Madhya 1.56" link_text="CC Madhya 1.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.56|CC Madhya 1.56, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Being always absorbed in the ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu felt the same separation from Kṛṣṇa that Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī felt when Kṛṣṇa left Vṛndāvana and went to Mathurā. This ecstatic feeling is very helpful in attaining love of God in separation. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has taught everyone that one should not be overly anxious to see the Lord, but should rather feel separation from Him in ecstasy. It is actually better to feel separation from Him than to desire to see Him face to face. When the gopīs of Vṛndāvana, the residents of Gokula, met Kṛṣṇa at Kurukṣetra during the solar eclipse, they wanted to take Kṛṣṇa back to Vṛndāvana. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu also felt the same ecstasy as soon as He saw Jagannātha in the temple or on the Ratha-yātrā car. The gopīs of Vṛndāvana did not like the opulence of Dvārakā. They wanted to take Kṛṣṇa to the village of Vṛndāvana and enjoy His company in the groves. This desire was also felt by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and He danced in ecstasy before the Ratha-yātrā festival when Lord Jagannātha went to Guṇḍicā.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya157_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="56" link="CC Madhya 1.57" link_text="CC Madhya 1.57">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.57|CC Madhya 1.57, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In that ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited a verse when dancing in front of Lord Jagannātha. Almost no one could understand the meaning of that verse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya186_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="85" link="CC Madhya 1.86" link_text="CC Madhya 1.86">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.86|CC Madhya 1.86, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Absorbed in the ecstasy of the gopīs, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu wished to see Lord Jagannātha in His original form as Kṛṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja, standing in Vṛndāvana and appearing very beautiful, His body curved in three places. His desire to see that form was always increasing.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya187_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="86" link="CC Madhya 1.87" link_text="CC Madhya 1.87">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.87|CC Madhya 1.87, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī talked inconsistently with a bumblebee in the presence of Uddhava, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in His ecstasy talked crazily and inconsistently day and night.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya187_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="86" link="CC Madhya 1.87" link_text="CC Madhya 1.87">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.87|CC Madhya 1.87, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This unmāda (madness) is not ordinary madness. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu talked inconsistently, almost like a crazy fellow, He was in the transcendental ecstasy of love. In the highest transcendental ecstasy there is a feeling of being enchanted in the presence of the enchanter. When the enchanter and the enchanted become separated, mohana, or bewilderment, occurs. When so bewildered due to separation, one becomes stunned, and at that time all the bodily symptoms of transcendental ecstasy are manifested. When they are manifest, one appears inconceivably crazy. This is called transcendental madness. In this state, there is imaginative discourse, and one experiences emotions like those of a madman. The madness of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was explained to Kṛṣṇa by Uddhava, who said, "My dear Kṛṣṇa, because of extreme feelings of separation from You, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is sometimes making Her bed in the groves of the forest, sometimes rebuking a bluish cloud, and sometimes wandering about in the dense darkness of the forest. Thus She has become like a crazy woman."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya194_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="93" link="CC Madhya 1.94" link_text="CC Madhya 1.94">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.94|CC Madhya 1.94, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It appears that in His transcendental ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu forgot to eat for three continuous days. He was then misled by Nityānanda Prabhu, who said that the river Ganges was the Yamunā. Because the Lord was in the ecstasy of going to Vṛndāvana, He was engladdened to see the Yamunā, although in actuality the river was the Ganges. In this way the Lord was brought to the house of Advaita Prabhu at Śāntipura after three days, and He accepted food there. As long as the Lord remained there, He saw His mother, Śacīdevī, and every night executed congregational chanting with all the devotees.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1107_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="106" link="CC Madhya 1.107" link_text="CC Madhya 1.107">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.107|CC Madhya 1.107, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to the land of Śrī Raṅga-kṣetra, on the bank of the Kāverī, He visited the temple of Śrī Raṅganātha and was there overwhelmed in the ecstasy of love of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1126_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="125" link="CC Madhya 1.126" link_text="CC Madhya 1.126">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.126|CC Madhya 1.126, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After due consideration, all the devotees began chanting the holy name congregationally. Lord Caitanya's mind was thus pacified by the ecstasy of the chanting.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1240_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="239" link="CC Madhya 1.240" link_text="CC Madhya 1.240">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.240|CC Madhya 1.240, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited all twelve places of Śrī Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, He became very much agitated because of ecstasy. Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya somehow or other got Him out of Mathurā.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1247_15" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="246" link="CC Madhya 1.247" link_text="CC Madhya 1.247">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.247|CC Madhya 1.247, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While at Jagannātha Purī, the Lord passed His time in great joy by performing saṅkīrtana and visiting the temple of Jagannātha in great ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="287" link="CC Madhya 2.1" link_text="CC Madhya 2.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.1|CC Madhya 2.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While relating in synopsis form the last division of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in this chapter I shall describe the Lord's transcendental ecstasy, which appears like madness due to His separation from Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya23_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="289" link="CC Madhya 2.3" link_text="CC Madhya 2.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.3|CC Madhya 2.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">During His last twelve years, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu always manifested all the symptoms of ecstasy in separation from Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya210_18" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="296" link="CC Madhya 2.10" link_text="CC Madhya 2.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.10|CC Madhya 2.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes Caitanya Mahāprabhu mistook the small parks of the city for Vṛndāvana. Sometimes He would go there, dance and chant and sometimes fall unconscious in spiritual ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya211_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="297" link="CC Madhya 2.11" link_text="CC Madhya 2.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.11|CC Madhya 2.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The ecstatic transformations of the body described in such exalted literatures as the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu are practically not seen in this material world. However, these symptoms were perfectly present in the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. These symptoms are indicative of mahābhāva, or the highest ecstasy. Sometimes sahajiyās artificially imitate these symptoms, but experienced devotees reject such imitations immediately. The author admits herein that these symptoms are not to be found anywhere but in the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya227_20" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="313" link="CC Madhya 2.27" link_text="CC Madhya 2.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.27|CC Madhya 2.27, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lamented in a great ocean of sadness, and thus He opened the doors of His unhappiness. Forced by the waves of ecstasy, His mind wandered over transcendental mellows, and He recited another verse (as follows).</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya231_21" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="317" link="CC Madhya 2.31" link_text="CC Madhya 2.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.31|CC Madhya 2.31, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The eyes which do not look at the symbolic representations of the Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu (His forms, names, qualities, etc.) are like those printed on the plumes of a peacock, and the legs which do not move to the holy places (where the Lord is remembered) are considered to be like tree trunks. The person who has not at any time received upon his head the dust from the feet of a pure devotee of the Lord is certainly a dead body. And the person who has never experienced the flavor of the tulasī leaves from the lotus feet of the Lord is also a dead body, although breathing. Certainly that heart is steel-framed which, in spite of one's chanting the holy name of the Lord with concentration, does not change and feel ecstasy, at which time tears fill the eyes and the hairs stand on end.”</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya235_22" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="321" link="CC Madhya 2.35" link_text="CC Madhya 2.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.35|CC Madhya 2.35, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu thirty-three such destructive symptoms are mentioned. They are expressed in words, in the eyebrows and in the eyes. These symptoms are called vyabhicārī bhāva, destructive ecstasy. If they continue, they are sometimes called sañcārī, or continued ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya239_23" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="325" link="CC Madhya 2.39" link_text="CC Madhya 2.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.39|CC Madhya 2.39, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu thus spoke in ecstasy, He saw two persons before Him. One was His secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara, and the other was Rāya Rāmānanda. Coming to His external consciousness, He saw them both present, and although He was still talking in the ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, He immediately began to question whether He was the same Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya250_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="336" link="CC Madhya 2.50" link_text="CC Madhya 2.50">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.50|CC Madhya 2.50, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way, Lord Caitanya used to revel in ecstasy day after day and exhibit these ecstasies before Svarūpa and Rāmānanda Rāya. Externally there appeared severe tribulation, as if He were suffering from poisonous effects, but internally He was experiencing bliss. This is characteristic of transcendental love of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya260_25" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="346" link="CC Madhya 2.60" link_text="CC Madhya 2.60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.60|CC Madhya 2.60, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way, the Lord's restlessness was awakened by ecstatic feelings, and His mind became agitated. No one could understand what course such ecstasy would take. Because Lord Caitanya could not meet the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, His mind burned. He began to ask Kṛṣṇa about the means by which He could reach Him.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya263_26" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="349" link="CC Madhya 2.63" link_text="CC Madhya 2.63">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.63|CC Madhya 2.63, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Because of the various kinds of ecstasy, contradictory states of mind occurred, and this resulted in a great fight between different types of ecstasy. Anxiety, impotence, humility, anger and impatience were all like soldiers fighting, and the madness of love of Godhead was the cause.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya263_27" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="349" link="CC Madhya 2.63" link_text="CC Madhya 2.63">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.63|CC Madhya 2.63, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu it is stated that when similar ecstasies from separate causes meet, they are called svarūpa-sandhi. When opposing elements meet, whether they arise from a common cause or different causes, their conjunction is called bhinna-rūpa-sandhi, the meeting of contradictory ecstasies. The simultaneous joining of different ecstasies—fear and happiness, regret and happiness—is called meeting (sandhi). The word śābalya refers to different types of ecstatic symptoms combined together, like pride, despondency, humility, remembrance, doubt, impatience caused by insult, fear, disappointment, patience and eagerness. The friction that occurs when these combine is called śābalya. Similarly, when the desire to see the object is very prominent, or when one is unable to tolerate any delay in seeing the desired object, the incapability is called autsukya, or eagerness.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya264_28" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="350" link="CC Madhya 2.64" link_text="CC Madhya 2.64">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.64|CC Madhya 2.64, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The body of the Lord was just like a field of sugarcane into which the mad elephants of ecstasy entered. There was a fight amongst the elephants, and in the process the entire field of sugarcane was destroyed. Thus transcendental madness was awakened in the body of the Lord, and He experienced despondency in mind and body. In this ecstatic condition, He began to speak as follows.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya266_29" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="352" link="CC Madhya 2.66" link_text="CC Madhya 2.66">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.66|CC Madhya 2.66, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The symptoms of madness served as an impetus for remembering Kṛṣṇa. The mood of ecstasy awoke love, disdain, defamation by words, pride, honor and indirect prayer. Thus Śrī Kṛṣṇa was sometimes blasphemed and sometimes honored.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya279_30" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="365" link="CC Madhya 2.79" link_text="CC Madhya 2.79">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.79|CC Madhya 2.79, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Līlāśuka (Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura) was an ordinary human being, yet he developed many ecstatic symptoms in his body. What, then, is so astonishing about these symptoms' being manifest in the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? In the ecstatic mood of conjugal love, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was on the highest platform; therefore, all the exuberant ecstasies were naturally visible in His body.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya280_31" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="366" link="CC Madhya 2.80" link_text="CC Madhya 2.80">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.80|CC Madhya 2.80, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">During His previous pastimes in Vṛndāvana, Lord Kṛṣṇa desired to enjoy the three different types of ecstasy, but despite great endeavor, He could not taste them. Such ecstasies are the monopoly of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Therefore, in order to taste them, Śrī Kṛṣṇa accepted the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in the form of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya282_32" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="368" link="CC Madhya 2.82" link_text="CC Madhya 2.82">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.82|CC Madhya 2.82, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">No one, not even Lord Brahmā, can ascertain or even taste a drop of this confidential ocean of ecstasy, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, out of His causeless mercy, has distributed this love of Godhead all over the world. Thus there cannot be any incarnation more munificent than Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. There is no greater donor. Who can describe His transcendental qualities?</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya283_33" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="369" link="CC Madhya 2.83" link_text="CC Madhya 2.83">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.83|CC Madhya 2.83, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">An ordinary person cannot understand the transcendental ecstasies in the mode of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Unfit persons who try to understand them are perverted into the sahajiyā, bāula and other sampradāyas. Thus the teachings are perverted. Even learned scholars in the academic field cannot understand the transcendental bliss and ecstasy exhibited by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His pure devotees. One must be fit to understand the purport of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's activities.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya35_34" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="387" link="CC Madhya 3.5" link_text="CC Madhya 3.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.5|CC Madhya 3.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Passing through the tract of land known as Rāḍha-deśa, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited the following verse in ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya312_35" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="394" link="CC Madhya 3.12" link_text="CC Madhya 3.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.12|CC Madhya 3.12, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed through Rāḍha-deśa, whoever saw Him in ecstasy exclaimed, "Hari! Hari!" As they chanted this with the Lord, all the unhappiness of material existence diminished.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya31819_36" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="400" link="CC Madhya 3.18-19" link_text="CC Madhya 3.18-19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.18-19|CC Madhya 3.18-19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the cowherd boys were questioned by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu about the path to Vṛndāvana, the boys showed Him the path on the bank of the Ganges, and the Lord went that way in ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya324_37" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="405" link="CC Madhya 3.24" link_text="CC Madhya 3.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.24|CC Madhya 3.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was in ecstasy, and He asked where Nityānanda Prabhu was going. Nityānanda replied that He was going with Him toward Vṛndāvana.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya326_38" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="407" link="CC Madhya 3.26" link_text="CC Madhya 3.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.26|CC Madhya 3.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Saying this, Nityānanda Prabhu took Caitanya Mahāprabhu near the Ganges, and the Lord, in His ecstasy, accepted the river Ganges as the river Yamunā.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya332_39" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="413" link="CC Madhya 3.32" link_text="CC Madhya 3.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.32|CC Madhya 3.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Still in His ecstasy, the Lord asked Advaita Ācārya, "Why did You come here? How did You know that I was in Vṛndāvana?"</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya338_40" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="419" link="CC Madhya 3.38" link_text="CC Madhya 3.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.38|CC Madhya 3.38, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Advaita Ācārya said, "You have been fasting continuously for three days in Your ecstasy of love for Kṛṣṇa. I therefore invite You to My home, where You may kindly take Your alms. Come with Me to My residence."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya3120_41" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="501" link="CC Madhya 3.120" link_text="CC Madhya 3.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.120|CC Madhya 3.120, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Being agitated by the ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu suddenly fell to the ground. Seeing this, Advaita Ācārya stopped dancing.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya3121_42" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="502" link="CC Madhya 3.121" link_text="CC Madhya 3.121">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.121|CC Madhya 3.121, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Mukunda saw the ecstasy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he understood the feelings of the Lord and began to sing many stanzas augmenting the force of the Lord's ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya3127_43" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="508" link="CC Madhya 3.127" link_text="CC Madhya 3.127">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.127|CC Madhya 3.127, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Harṣa is described in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. Harṣa is experienced when one finally attains the desired goal of life and consequently becomes very glad. When harṣa is present, the body shivers, and one's bodily hairs stand on end. There are perspiration, tears and an outburst of passion and madness. The mouth becomes swollen, and one experiences inertia and illusion. When a person attains his desired object and feels very fortunate, the luster of his body increases. Because of his own qualities and feelings of greatness, he does not care for anyone else, and this is called garva, or pride. In this condition one utters prayers and does not reply to others' inquiries. Looking at one's own body, concealing one's desires and not heeding the words of others are symptoms visible in the ecstasy of garva.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya3130_44" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="511" link="CC Madhya 3.130" link_text="CC Madhya 3.130">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.130|CC Madhya 3.130, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon standing up, the Lord said, "Go on speaking! Go on speaking!" Thus He began to dance, overwhelmed with pleasure. No one could understand the strong waves of this ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya3132_45" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="513" link="CC Madhya 3.132" link_text="CC Madhya 3.132">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.132|CC Madhya 3.132, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In this way the Lord danced for at least three hours. Sometimes the symptoms of ecstasy were visible, including pleasure, moroseness and many other waves of ecstatic emotional love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya422_46" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="619" link="CC Madhya 4.22" link_text="CC Madhya 4.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.22|CC Madhya 4.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Mādhavendra Purī was almost mad in his ecstasy of love of Godhead, and he did not know whether it was day or night. Sometimes he stood up, and sometimes he fell to the ground. He could not discriminate whether he was in a proper place or not.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4108_47" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="705" link="CC Madhya 4.108" link_text="CC Madhya 4.108">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.108|CC Madhya 4.108, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After having this dream, Mādhavendra Purī Gosvāmī became very glad due to ecstasy of love of Godhead, and in order to execute the command of the Lord, he started east toward Bengal.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4138_48" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="735" link="CC Madhya 4.138" link_text="CC Madhya 4.138">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.138|CC Madhya 4.138, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The priest offered his obeisances to Mādhavendra Purī and returned to the temple. Then, in ecstasy, Mādhavendra Purī ate the sweet rice offered to him by Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4140_49" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="737" link="CC Madhya 4.140" link_text="CC Madhya 4.140">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.140|CC Madhya 4.140, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Each day, Mādhavendra Purī would eat one piece of that earthen pot, and after eating it he would immediately be overwhelmed with ecstasy. These are wonderful stories.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4143_50" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="740" link="CC Madhya 4.143" link_text="CC Madhya 4.143">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.143|CC Madhya 4.143, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Walking and walking, Mādhavendra Purī finally reached Jagannātha Purī, which is also known as Nīlācala. There he saw Lord Jagannātha and was overwhelmed with loving ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4144_51" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="741" link="CC Madhya 4.144" link_text="CC Madhya 4.144">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.144|CC Madhya 4.144, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Mādhavendra Purī was overwhelmed in the ecstasy of love of Godhead, he sometimes stood up and sometimes fell to the ground. Sometimes he laughed, danced and sang. In this way he enjoyed transcendental bliss by seeing the Jagannātha Deity.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4147_52" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="744" link="CC Madhya 4.147" link_text="CC Madhya 4.147">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.147|CC Madhya 4.147, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Almost all the conditioned souls within the material world are envious. Jealous people generally turn against one who automatically attains some reputation. This is natural for jealous people. Consequently, when a devotee is fit to receive worldly reputation, he is envied by many people. This is quite natural. When a person, out of humility, does not desire fame, people generally think him quite humble and consequently give him all kinds of fame. Actually a Vaiṣṇava does not hanker after fame or a great reputation. Mādhavendra Purī, the king of Vaiṣṇavas, bore his reputation, but he wanted to keep himself outside of the vision of the general populace. He wanted to cover his real identity as a great devotee of the Lord, but when people saw him overwhelmed in the ecstasy of love of Godhead, they naturally gave credit to him. Actually a first-class reputation is due Mādhavendra Purī because he was a most confidential devotee of the Lord. Sometimes a sahajiyā presents himself as being void of desires for reputation (pratiṣṭhā) in order to become famous as a humble man. Such people cannot actually attain the platform of celebrated Vaiṣṇavas.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4155_53" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="752" link="CC Madhya 4.155" link_text="CC Madhya 4.155">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.155|CC Madhya 4.155, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Mādhavendra Purī reached the temple of Gopīnātha, he offered his respectful obeisances many times at the lotus feet of the Lord. In the ecstasy of love, he began to dance and sing without cessation.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4203_54" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="800" link="CC Madhya 4.203" link_text="CC Madhya 4.203">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.203|CC Madhya 4.203, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This verse uncovered the door of ecstatic love, and when it was exhibited, all the servants of Gopīnātha saw Caitanya Mahāprabhu dance in ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya5Summary_55" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="811" link="CC Madhya 5 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 5 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 5 Summary|CC Madhya 5 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">After hearing this narration, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited the temple of Gopāla in great ecstasy of love of God. From Kaṭaka He went to Bhuvaneśvara and saw the temple of Lord Śiva. In this way, He gradually arrived at Kamalapura, and on the banks of the Bhārgī River. He came to the temple of Lord Śiva, where He entrusted His sannyāsa staff to Nityānanda Prabhu. However, Nityānanda Prabhu broke the staff into three pieces and threw it into the Bhārgī River. At a place known as Āṭhāranālā, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became angry at not getting His staff back. Thus He left the company of Nityānanda Prabhu and went alone to see the Jagannātha temple.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya5137_56" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="947" link="CC Madhya 5.137" link_text="CC Madhya 5.137">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 5.137|CC Madhya 5.137, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The devotees saw that both Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Gopāla were brilliantly effulgent and had eyes like lotuses. They were both absorbed in ecstasy, and both Their faces resembled full moons.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya5144_57" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="953" link="CC Madhya 5.144" link_text="CC Madhya 5.144">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 5.144|CC Madhya 5.144, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After seeing the temple of Jagannātha from a distant place, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately became ecstatic. After offering obeisances to the temple, He began to dance in the ecstasy of love of God.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya5146_58" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="955" link="CC Madhya 5.146" link_text="CC Madhya 5.146">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 5.146|CC Madhya 5.146, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was in ecstasy, He considered one moment to last as long as twelve years. After seeing the Jagannātha temple from a distant place, the Lord became so ecstatic that He considered the six-mile path many thousands of miles long.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya5149_59" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="958" link="CC Madhya 5.149" link_text="CC Madhya 5.149">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 5.149|CC Madhya 5.149, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Nityānanda Prabhu said, “When You fell down in ecstasy, I caught You, but both of Us together fell upon the staff.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya63_60" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="974" link="CC Madhya 6.3" link_text="CC Madhya 6.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.3|CC Madhya 6.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went from Āṭhāranālā to the temple of Jagannātha. After seeing Lord Jagannātha, He became very restless due to love of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya613_61" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="984" link="CC Madhya 6.13" link_text="CC Madhya 6.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.13|CC Madhya 6.13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Adhirūḍha-bhāva, or adhirūḍha-mahābhāva, is explained in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura quotes Rūpa Gosvāmī as follows: "The loving propensity of the āśraya (devotee) toward the viṣaya (Lord) becomes so ecstatic that even after enjoying the company of the beloved, the devotee feels that his enjoyment is insufficient. At such a time, the lover sees the beloved in different ways. Such a development of ecstasy is called anurāga. When anurāga reaches its highest limit and becomes perceivable in the body, it is called bhāva. When the bodily symptoms are not very distinct, however, the emotional state is still called anurāga, not bhāva. When bhāva ecstasy is intensified, it is called mahā-bhāva. The symptoms of mahā-bhāva are visible only in the bodies of eternal associates like the gopīs."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya634_62" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1005" link="CC Madhya 6.34" link_text="CC Madhya 6.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.34|CC Madhya 6.34, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone was then very pleased to see the Deity of Lord Jagannātha. Lord Nityānanda in particular was overwhelmed with ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya656_63" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1027" link="CC Madhya 6.56" link_text="CC Madhya 6.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.56|CC Madhya 6.56, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A sannyāsī is always to be worshiped and offered all kinds of respect by the gṛhasthas (householders). Although Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya was older than Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Sārvabhauma respected Him as a sannyāsī and as one who had attained the topmost platform of spiritual ecstasy. Thus the Bhaṭṭācārya certainly accepted Him as his master.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya691_64" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1061" link="CC Madhya 6.91" link_text="CC Madhya 6.91">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.91|CC Madhya 6.91, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Gopīnātha Ācārya is pointing out that Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya had already seen uncommon symptoms of ecstasy in the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
<p>These uncommon symptoms of ecstatic love indicated the Supreme Person, but despite having seen all these symptoms, the Bhaṭṭācārya could not understand the Lord's transcendental nature. He was considering the Lord's pastimes to be mundane. This was certainly due to illusion.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya6209_65" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1178" link="CC Madhya 6.209" link_text="CC Madhya 6.209">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.209|CC Madhya 6.209, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya was in this ecstasy, Gopīnātha Ācārya was very pleased. The associates of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu all laughed to see the Bhaṭṭācārya dance so.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya6229_66" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1198" link="CC Madhya 6.229" link_text="CC Madhya 6.229">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.229|CC Madhya 6.229, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As they danced and embraced, spiritual symptoms manifested in their bodies. They perspired, trembled and shed tears, and the Lord began to speak in His ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya6261_67" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1230" link="CC Madhya 6.261" link_text="CC Madhya 6.261">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.261|CC Madhya 6.261, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When reciting this verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.14.8), Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya changed the original reading from mukti-pade to bhakti-pade. Mukti means liberation and merging into the impersonal Brahman effulgence. Bhakti means rendering transcendental service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because of having developed pure devotional service, the Bhaṭṭācārya did not like the word mukti-pade, which refers to the impersonal Brahman feature of the Lord. However, he was not authorized to change a word in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu will explain. Although the Bhaṭṭācārya changed the word in his devotional ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not approve of it.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya777_68" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1330" link="CC Madhya 7.77" link_text="CC Madhya 7.77">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.77|CC Madhya 7.77, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In great ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced and chanted for some time. Indeed, all the neighbors came to see Him.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya778_69" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1331" link="CC Madhya 7.78" link_text="CC Madhya 7.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.78|CC Madhya 7.78, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All around Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is also known as Gaurahari, people began to shout the holy name of Hari. Lord Caitanya, immersed in His usual ecstasy of love, danced in the midst of them.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya7114_70" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1367" link="CC Madhya 7.114" link_text="CC Madhya 7.114">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.114|CC Madhya 7.114, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While at this place, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was in His usual ecstasy of love of Godhead and was laughing, crying, dancing and chanting. Everyone who saw Him was astonished.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya7116_71" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1369" link="CC Madhya 7.116" link_text="CC Madhya 7.116">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.116|CC Madhya 7.116, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just by seeing Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, everyone became a devotee. They began to chant "Kṛṣṇa" and "Hari" and all the holy names. They all were merged in a great ecstasy of love, and they began to dance, raising their arms.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya89_72" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1416" link="CC Madhya 8.9" link_text="CC Madhya 8.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.9|CC Madhya 8.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The next morning, in the great ecstasy of love, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu started on His tour with no knowledge of the proper direction, and He continued the whole day and night.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya828_73" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1435" link="CC Madhya 8.28" link_text="CC Madhya 8.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.28|CC Madhya 8.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmānanda Rāya was intimately related to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; therefore he can be accepted as a sajātīya, a person within the intimate circle of the Lord. The brāhmaṇas, however, were followers of the Vedic rituals and were not able to have an intimate connection with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Consequently they are called vijātīya-loka. In other words, they were not pure devotees. One may be a highly learned brāhmaṇa, but if he is not a pure devotee he is a vijātīya, an outcaste, one outside devotional service—in other words, a nondevotee. Although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya were embracing in ecstasy, the Lord restrained His transcendental emotions upon seeing the outsider brāhmaṇas.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya842_74" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1449" link="CC Madhya 8.42" link_text="CC Madhya 8.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.42|CC Madhya 8.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I hear everyone chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. Everyone's body is thrilled with ecstasy, and there are tears in everyone's eyes.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8160_75" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1565" link="CC Madhya 8.160" link_text="CC Madhya 8.160">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.160|CC Madhya 8.160, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The essential part of love of Godhead is called mahābhāva, transcendental ecstasy, and that ecstasy is represented by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8161_76" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1566" link="CC Madhya 8.161" link_text="CC Madhya 8.161">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.161|CC Madhya 8.161, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Among the gopīs of Vṛndāvana, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and another gopī are considered chief. But when we compare the gopīs, it appears that Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is most important because Her real feature expresses the highest ecstasy of love. The ecstasy of love experienced by the other gopīs cannot be compared to that of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8164_77" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1569" link="CC Madhya 8.164" link_text="CC Madhya 8.164">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.164|CC Madhya 8.164, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">That supreme ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the essence of spiritual life. Her only business is to fulfill all the desires of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8166_78" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1571" link="CC Madhya 8.166" link_text="CC Madhya 8.166">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.166|CC Madhya 8.166, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The love of the gopīs for Kṛṣṇa is full of transcendental ecstasy. It appears to be a brilliant jewel, and enlightened by such a transcendental jewel, Rādhārāṇī’s body is further perfumed and decorated with kuṅkuma. In the morning Her body is bathed in the nectar of compassion, in the afternoon in the nectar of youth, and in the evening in the nectar of luster itself. In this way the bathing is performed, and Her body becomes as brilliant as the cintāmaṇi jewel. She is dressed in various kinds of silken garments, one of which is Her natural shyness.</p>
<p>“Her beauty is more and more enhanced, being decorated with the red kuṅkuma of beauty itself and the blackish musk of conjugal love. Thus Her body is decorated with different colors. Her ornaments embody the natural symptoms of ecstasy—trembling, tears, jubilation, stunning, perspiration, faltering of the voice, bodily redness, madness and dullness. In this way Her entire body is bedecked with these nine different jewels. Over and above this, the beauty of Her body is enhanced by Her transcendental qualities, which constitute the flower garland hanging on Her body. The ecstasy of love for Kṛṣṇa is known as dhīrā and adhīrā, sober and restless. Such ecstasy constitutes the covering of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s body, and it is adorned by camphor.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8166_79" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1571" link="CC Madhya 8.166" link_text="CC Madhya 8.166">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.166|CC Madhya 8.166, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Her joking with Kṛṣṇa and gentle smiling constitute the camphor with which She is perfumed. She sleeps in Her room with the aroma of pride, and when She lies down in Her bed, the transcendental variety of Her loving ecstasies is like a jeweled locket in the midst of Her necklace of separation. Her transcendental breasts are covered by Her sari in the form of affection and anger toward Kṛṣṇa. She has a stringed instrument known as a kacchapī-vīṇā, which is the fame and fortune that actually dries up the faces and breasts of the other gopīs. She always keeps Her hands on the shoulder of Her gopī friend, who represents Her youthful beauty, and although She is highly qualified with so many spiritual assets, She is nonetheless affected by the Cupid known as Kṛṣṇa. Thus She is defeated. Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī offers his respectful obeisances to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, taking a straw in his mouth. Indeed, he prays, "O Gāndharvikā, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, just as Lord Kṛṣṇa never rejects a surrendered soul, please don"t reject me.’” This is a summary translation of the Premāmbhoja-maranda, which Kavirāja Gosvāmī quotes.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8174_80" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1579" link="CC Madhya 8.174" link_text="CC Madhya 8.174">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.174|CC Madhya 8.174, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The ornaments decorating Her body are the blazing ecstasies of goodness and the constantly existing ecstasies, headed by jubilation. All these ecstasies are the ornaments all over Her body.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8175_81" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1580" link="CC Madhya 8.175" link_text="CC Madhya 8.175">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.175|CC Madhya 8.175, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The twenty different moods headed by kila-kiñcita are described as follows. First, in connection with the body, there are bhāva (ecstasy), hāva (gestures) and helā (negligence); in relation to the self there are śobhā (beauty), kānti (luster), dīpti (brilliance), mādhurya (sweetness), pragalbhatā (impudence), audārya (magnanimity) and dhairya (patience); and in relation to nature there are līlā (pastimes), vilāsa (enjoyment), vicchitti (breaking off) and vibhrama (puzzlement). There are no English equivalents for the words kila-kiñcita, moṭṭāyita and kuṭṭamita.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8193_82" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1597" link="CC Madhya 8.193" link_text="CC Madhya 8.193">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.193|CC Madhya 8.193, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Saying this, Rāmānanda Rāya began to sing a song he had composed, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, out of the ecstasy of love of Godhead, immediately covered Rāmānanda's mouth with His own hand.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8204205_83" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1608" link="CC Madhya 8.204-205" link_text="CC Madhya 8.204-205">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.204-205|CC Madhya 8.204-205, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">“Without the help of the gopīs, one cannot enter into these pastimes. Only one who worships the Lord in the ecstasy of the gopīs, following in their footsteps, can engage in the service of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa in the bushes of Vṛndāvana. Only then can one understand the conjugal love between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. There is no other procedure for understanding.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8204205_84" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1608" link="CC Madhya 8.204-205" link_text="CC Madhya 8.204-205">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.204-205|CC Madhya 8.204-205, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The means for returning home, for going back to Godhead, is devotional service, but everyone has a different taste in the Lord's service. One may be inclined to serve the Lord in servitude (dāsya-rasa), fraternity (sakhya-rasa) or parental love (vātsalya-rasa), but none of these can enable one to enter into the service of the Lord in conjugal love. To attain such service, one has to follow in the footsteps of the gopīs in the ecstasy of sakhī-bhāva. Then only can one understand the transcendental mellow of conjugal love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8223_85" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1626" link="CC Madhya 8.223" link_text="CC Madhya 8.223">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.223|CC Madhya 8.223, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Goloka Vṛndāvana planet, Kṛṣṇa's servants are headed by Raktaka and Patraka. Kṛṣṇa's friends are headed by Śrīdāmā, Subala and others. There are also elderly gopīs and the cowherd men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, mother Yaśodā and others. All of these personalities are eternally engaged in the loving service of the Lord in accordance with their specific attachments for Kṛṣṇa. One who wants to return home to serve the Lord directly may be attracted to Kṛṣṇa as a servant, friend, father or mother. If a person continuously serves Kṛṣṇa during this life in a particular ecstasy, upon giving up the material body he attains a  spiritual body suitable for serving Kṛṣṇa in terms of his particular attachment. One may serve as a servant, friend, father or mother. In the same way, one who wants to serve Kṛṣṇa in conjugal love can attain a body under the guidance of the gopīs. In this connection, the most vivid example is provided by those saintly personalities known as the śrutis, who represent the Upaniṣads. The śrutis understood that without serving Kṛṣṇa and following in the footsteps of the gopīs there would be no possibility of their entering the kingdom of God and serving Kṛṣṇa in the mood of conjugal love. Therefore they engaged in spontaneous loving service unto Kṛṣṇa and followed in the footsteps of the gopīs.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8270_86" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1673" link="CC Madhya 8.270" link_text="CC Madhya 8.270">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.270|CC Madhya 8.270, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I see that You are holding a flute to Your mouth, and Your lotus eyes are moving very restlessly due to various ecstasies.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8279_87" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1682" link="CC Madhya 8.279" link_text="CC Madhya 8.279">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.279|CC Madhya 8.279, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmānanda Rāya continued, “My dear Lord, I can understand that You have assumed the ecstasy and bodily complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. By accepting these, You are tasting Your own personal transcendental humor and have therefore appeared as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8280_88" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1683" link="CC Madhya 8.280" link_text="CC Madhya 8.280">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.280|CC Madhya 8.280, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear Lord, You have descended in this incarnation of Lord Caitanya for Your own personal reasons. You have come to taste Your own spiritual bliss, and at the same time You are transforming the whole world by spreading the ecstasy of love of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8288_89" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1691" link="CC Madhya 8.288" link_text="CC Madhya 8.288">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.288|CC Madhya 8.288, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"I have now converted My body and mind into the ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; thus I am tasting My own personal sweetness in that form."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8288_90" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1691" link="CC Madhya 8.288" link_text="CC Madhya 8.288">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.288|CC Madhya 8.288, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">They misinterpret the words gaura aṅga nahe mora in text 287. From that verse and the present verse we can understand that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is nondifferent from Kṛṣṇa. Both are the same Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the form of Kṛṣṇa, the Lord enjoys spiritual bliss and remains the shelter of all devotees, viṣaya-vigraha. And in His Gaurāṅga feature Kṛṣṇa tastes separation from Kṛṣṇa in the ecstasy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. This ecstatic form is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is always the transcendental reservoir of all pleasure, and He is technically called dhīra-lalita. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the embodiment of spiritual energy, personified as ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa; therefore only Kṛṣṇa can touch Her. The dhīra-lalita aspect is not seen in any other form of the Lord, including Viṣṇu and Nārāyaṇa. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is therefore known as Govinda-nandinī and Govinda-mohinī, for She is the only source of transcendental pleasure for Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the only person who can enchant His mind.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya941_91" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1757" link="CC Madhya 9.41" link_text="CC Madhya 9.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.41|CC Madhya 9.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord's bodily features were very beautiful, and in addition He was always in the ecstasy of love of Godhead. Simply by seeing Him, everyone began chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, and thus everyone became a Vaiṣṇava devotee.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya970_92" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1786" link="CC Madhya 9.70" link_text="CC Madhya 9.70">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.70|CC Madhya 9.70, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu stayed at Viṣṇu-kāñcī for two days, He danced and performed kīrtana in ecstasy. When all the people saw Him, they were converted into devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya987_93" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1803" link="CC Madhya 9.87" link_text="CC Madhya 9.87">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.87|CC Madhya 9.87, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While there, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took His bath in the river Kāverī and visited the temple of Śrī Raṅga. Every day the Lord also danced in ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya994_94" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1810" link="CC Madhya 9.94" link_text="CC Madhya 9.94">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.94|CC Madhya 9.94, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The brāhmaṇa regularly read the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad-gītā in great transcendental ecstasy, but because he could not pronounce the words correctly, people used to joke about him.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya995_95" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1811" link="CC Madhya 9.95" link_text="CC Madhya 9.95">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.95|CC Madhya 9.95, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Due to his incorrect pronunciation, people sometimes criticized him and laughed at him, but he did not care. He was full of ecstasy due to reading the Bhagavad-gītā and was personally very happy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9133_96" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1849" link="CC Madhya 9.133" link_text="CC Madhya 9.133">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.133|CC Madhya 9.133, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The authorities in the Vedic literature who are known as the śruti-gaṇas worshiped Lord Kṛṣṇa in the ecstasy of the gopīs and followed in their footsteps.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The authorities in the Vedic literature who are known as the śruti-gaṇas desired to enter into Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa's rāsa dance; therefore they began to worship the Lord in the ecstasy of the gopīs. In the beginning, however, they were unsuccessful. When they could not enter the dance simply by thinking of Kṛṣṇa in the ecstasy of the gopīs, they actually accepted bodies like those of the gopīs. They even took birth in Vrajabhūmi just like the gopīs and consequently became engrossed in the ecstasy of the gopīs' love. In this way they were allowed to enter into the rāsa-līlā dance of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9146_97" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1862" link="CC Madhya 9.146" link_text="CC Madhya 9.146">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.146|CC Madhya 9.146, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is a verse from the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.59). Here Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja says that Lord Caitanya spoke the verse to Veṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa, and earlier he said that Veṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa spoke it to the Lord. But since their conversation took place long, long before the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu was composed, the question my be raised as to how either of them quoted the verse. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explains that this verse and many others like it were current among devotees long before the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu was composed. Thus devotees would always quote them and explain their purport in ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9156_98" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1872" link="CC Madhya 9.156" link_text="CC Madhya 9.156">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.156|CC Madhya 9.156, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">‘When the jewel known as vaidūrya touches various other materials, it appears to be separated into different colors, and consequently its forms also appear different. Similarly, according to the meditational ecstasy of the devotee, the Lord, who is known as Acyuta ("the infallible one"), appears in different forms, although He is essentially one.’</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9168_99" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1884" link="CC Madhya 9.168" link_text="CC Madhya 9.168">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.168|CC Madhya 9.168, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon meeting Paramānanda Purī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu offered him all respects, touching his lotus feet, and Paramānanda Purī embraced the Lord in ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9235_100" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1950" link="CC Madhya 9.235" link_text="CC Madhya 9.235">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.235|CC Madhya 9.235, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the Lord saw the Ādi-keśava temple, He was immediately overwhelmed with ecstasy. Offering various obeisances and prayers, He chanted and danced.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9239240_101" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1954" link="CC Madhya 9.239-240" link_text="CC Madhya 9.239-240">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.239-240|CC Madhya 9.239-240, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Brahma-saṁhitā also explains the demigod Gaṇeśa, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the origin of the Gāyatrī mantra, the form of Govinda and His transcendental position and abode, the living entities, the highest goal, the goddess Durgā, the meaning of austerity, the five gross elements, love of Godhead, impersonal Brahman, the initiation of Lord Brahmā, and the vision of transcendental love enabling one to see the Lord. The steps of devotional service are also explained. The mind, yoga-nidrā, the goddess of fortune, devotional service in spontaneous ecstasy, incarnations beginning with Lord Rāmacandra, Deities, the conditioned soul and its duties, the truth about Lord Viṣṇu, prayers, Vedic hymns, Lord Śiva, the Vedic literature, personalism and impersonalism, good behavior, and many other subjects are also discussed. There is also a description of the sun and the universal form of the Lord. All these subjects are conclusively explained in a nutshell in the Brahma-saṁhitā.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9242_102" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1956" link="CC Madhya 9.242" link_text="CC Madhya 9.242">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.242|CC Madhya 9.242, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu remained for two or three days at Ananta Padmanābha and visited the temple there. Then, in great ecstasy He went to see the temple of Śrī Janārdana.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9245_103" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1959" link="CC Madhya 9.245" link_text="CC Madhya 9.245">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.245|CC Madhya 9.245, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu next arrived at Uḍupī, the place of Madhvācārya, where the philosophers known as Tattvavādīs resided. There He saw the Deity of Lord Kṛṣṇa and became mad with ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9290_104" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2003" link="CC Madhya 9.290" link_text="CC Madhya 9.290">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.290|CC Madhya 9.290, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After saying this, Śrī Raṅga Purī lifted Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu up and embraced Him. As they embraced shoulder to shoulder, they both began to cry in ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9292_105" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2005" link="CC Madhya 9.292" link_text="CC Madhya 9.292">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.292|CC Madhya 9.292, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">They were both inundated by the wonderful ecstasy of love that was aroused in them. Finally they sat down and respectfully began to converse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9339_106" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2052" link="CC Madhya 9.339" link_text="CC Madhya 9.339">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.339|CC Madhya 9.339, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As soon as Nityānanda Prabhu received news of the arrival of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He immediately got up and started out to see Him. Indeed, He was very impatient in His great ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1080_107" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2159" link="CC Madhya 10.80" link_text="CC Madhya 10.80">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.80|CC Madhya 10.80, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Advaita Ācārya Gosvāmī heard of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's return, He became very pleased. In His great ecstasy of love, He made a rumbling sound and danced and chanted for a long time.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1096_108" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2175" link="CC Madhya 10.96" link_text="CC Madhya 10.96">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.96|CC Madhya 10.96, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the great ecstasy of love, the Lord worshiped the lotus feet of Paramānanda Purī, and in turn Paramānanda Purī embraced the Lord in great ecstasy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10126_109" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2205" link="CC Madhya 10.126" link_text="CC Madhya 10.126">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.126|CC Madhya 10.126, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara then worshiped the lotus feet of Nityānanda Prabhu, and Nityānanda Prabhu in turn embraced him in the ecstasy of love.</p>
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