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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="CCMadhya21111_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5004" link="CC Madhya 21.111" link_text="CC Madhya 21.111">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.111|CC Madhya 21.111, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as the women of Mathurā ecstatically described the fortune of the gopīs of Vṛndāvana and the transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu described the different mellows of Kṛṣṇa and became overwhelmed with ecstatic love. Grasping the hand of Sanātana Gosvāmī, He recited the following verse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21111_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5004" link="CC Madhya 21.111" link_text="CC Madhya 21.111">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.111|CC Madhya 21.111, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as the women of Mathurā ecstatically described the fortune of the gopīs of Vṛndāvana and the transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu described the different mellows of Kṛṣṇa and became overwhelmed with ecstatic love. Grasping the hand of Sanātana Gosvāmī, He recited the following verse.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21113_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5006" link="CC Madhya 21.113" link_text="CC Madhya 21.113">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.113|CC Madhya 21.113, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The bodily beauty of Śrī Kṛṣṇa is like a wave in the ocean of eternal youth. In that great ocean is the whirlpool of the awakening of ecstatic love. The vibration of Kṛṣṇa's flute is like a whirlwind, and the flickering minds of the gopīs are like straws and dry leaves. After they fall down in the whirlwind, they never rise again but remain eternally at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21115_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5008" link="CC Madhya 21.115" link_text="CC Madhya 21.115">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.115|CC Madhya 21.115, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The sweetness of Kṛṣṇa's beauty enjoyed by the gopīs is unparalleled. Nothing is equal to or greater than such ecstatic sweetness. Even the predominating Deities of the Vaikuṇṭha planets, the Nārāyaṇas, do not possess such sweetness. Indeed, none of the incarnations of Kṛṣṇa up to Nārāyaṇa possess such transcendental beauty.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21118_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5011" link="CC Madhya 21.118" link_text="CC Madhya 21.118">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.118|CC Madhya 21.118, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Both the gopīs and Kṛṣṇa are complete. The gopīs' ecstatic love is like a mirror that becomes newer and newer at every moment and reflects Kṛṣṇa's bodily luster and sweetness. Thus competition increases. Since neither give up, their pastimes become newer and newer, and both sides constantly increase.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21119_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5012" link="CC Madhya 21.119" link_text="CC Madhya 21.119">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.119|CC Madhya 21.119, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The transcendental mellows generated from the dealings between the gopīs and Kṛṣṇa cannot be tasted by means of fruitive activity, yogic austerities, speculative knowledge, regulative devotional service, mantra-yoga or meditation. This sweetness can be tasted only through the spontaneous love of liberated persons who chant the holy names with great ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21120_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5013" link="CC Madhya 21.120" link_text="CC Madhya 21.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.120|CC Madhya 21.120, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Such ecstatic transactions between Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs are possible only in Vṛndāvana, which is full of the opulences of transcendental love. The form of Kṛṣṇa is the original source of all transcendental qualities. It is like a mine of gems. The opulences belonging to all the personal expansions of Kṛṣṇa are to be understood to be bestowed by Kṛṣṇa; therefore Kṛṣṇa is the original source and shelter of everyone.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21137_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5030" link="CC Madhya 21.137" link_text="CC Madhya 21.137">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.137|CC Madhya 21.137, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When there is a combination of kapha, pitta and vāyu, the three bodily elements, there occurs sannipāti, or a convulsive disease. Lord Caitanya said, "This disease of Mine is caused by the personal features of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The three elements are the beauty of Kṛṣṇa's body, the beauty of His face, and the beauty of His smile. Stricken by these three beauties, My mind goes into convulsions. It wishes to drink the ocean of Kṛṣṇa's beauty, but because I am undergoing convulsions, My physician, who is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, does not even allow Me to take a drop of water from that ocean." Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was ecstatic in this way because He was presenting Himself in the mood of the gopīs. The gopīs wanted to drink the ocean of sweetness arising from the bodily features of Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa did not allow them to come near. Consequently their desire to meet Kṛṣṇa increased, and being unable to drink the ambrosia of Kṛṣṇa's bodily features, they became very unhappy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2313_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5217" link="CC Madhya 23.13" link_text="CC Madhya 23.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.13|CC Madhya 23.13, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“When that ecstatic emotional stage intensifies, it is called love of Godhead. Such love is life's ultimate goal and the reservoir of all pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya231819_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5221" link="CC Madhya 23.18-19" link_text="CC Madhya 23.18-19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.18-19|CC Madhya 23.18-19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"When the seed of ecstatic emotion for Kṛṣṇa fructifies, the following nine symptoms manifest in one"s behavior: forgiveness, concern that time should not be wasted, detachment, absence of false prestige, hope, eagerness, a taste for chanting the holy name of the Lord, attachment to descriptions of the transcendental qualities of the Lord, and affection for those places where the Lord resides—that is, a temple or a holy place like Vṛndāvana. These are all called anubhāva, subordinate signs of ecstatic emotion. They are visible in a person in whose heart the seed of love of God has begun to fructify.’</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2336_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5238" link="CC Madhya 23.36" link_text="CC Madhya 23.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.36|CC Madhya 23.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“A devotee absorbed in ecstatic emotion for Kṛṣṇa always resides in a place where Kṛṣṇa's pastimes were performed.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2346_11" 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;">"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="CCMadhya2349_12" 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="CCMadhya2351_13" 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, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"The object of love is Kṛṣṇa, and the container of that love is the devotee of Kṛṣṇa. Learned scholars call them ālambana—the foundations." Similarly, uddīpana is described as follows:</p>
:uddīpanās tu te proktā bhāvam uddīpayanti ye
:te tu śrī-kṛṣṇa-candrasya guṇāś ceṣṭāḥ prasādhanam
<p>"Those things which awaken ecstatic love are called uddīpana. Mainly this awakening is made possible by the qualities and activities of Kṛṣṇa, as well as by His mode of decoration and the way His hair is arranged." (B.r.s. 2.1.301) The Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (2.1.302) also gives the following further examples of uddīpana:</p>
:smitāṅga-saurabhe vaṁśa-śṛṅga-nūpura-kambavaḥ
:padāṅka-kṣetra-tulasī-bhakta-tad-vāsarādayaḥ
<p>"Kṛṣṇa's smile, the fragrance of His transcendental body, His flute, bugle, ankle bells and conchshell, the marks on His feet, His place of residence, His favorite plant (tulasī), His devotees, and the observance of fasts and vows connected to His devotion all awaken the symptoms of ecstatic love."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2351_14" 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, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"The many external ecstatic symptoms, or bodily transformations which indicate ecstatic emotions in the mind and which are also called udbhāsvara, are the anubhāvas, or subordinate ecstatic expressions of love." Some of these symptoms are dancing, falling down and rolling on the ground, singing and crying very loudly, bodily contortions, loud vibrations, yawning, deep breathing, disregard for others, the frothing of saliva, mad laughter, spitting, hiccups and other, similar symptoms. All these symptoms are divided into two divisions—śīta and kṣepaṇa. Singing, yawning and so on are called śīta. Dancing and bodily contortions are called kṣepaṇa.</p>
<p>In his Anubhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura quotes the following verse from the Vedic literature describing udbhāsvara:</p>
:udbhāsante sva-dhāmnīti proktā udbhāsvarā budhaiḥ
:nīvy-uttarīya-dhammilla-sraṁsanaṁ gātra-moṭanam
:jṛmbhā ghrāṇasya phullatvaṁ niśvāsādyāś ca te matāḥ
<p>"The ecstatic symptoms manifest in the external body of a person in ecstatic love are called udbhāsvara by learned scholars. Some of these are a slackening of the belt and a dropping of clothes and hair. Others are bodily contortions, yawning, a trembling of the front portion of the nostrils, heavy breathing, hiccupping and falling down and rolling on the ground. These are the external manifestations of emotional love." Stambha and other symptoms are described in Madhya-līlā 14.167.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2352_15" 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_16" 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, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“After the mellow of servitorship, there are the mellows of friendship and parental love, which increase to subordinate spontaneous love. The greatness of the love found in friends like Subala extends to the standard of ecstatic love of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2355_17" 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_18" 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]]: </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 id="CCMadhya2362_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5264" link="CC Madhya 23.62" link_text="CC Madhya 23.62">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.62|CC Madhya 23.62, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"When the lover and the beloved meet, they are called yukta (connected). Previous to their meeting, they are called ayukta (not connected). Whether connected or not connected, the ecstatic emotion arising due to not being able to embrace and kiss each other as desired is called vipralambha. This vipralambha helps nourish emotions at the time of meeting." Similarly, sambhoga is described in the following verse quoted from the Vedic literature by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura in his Anubhāṣya:</p>
:darśanāliṅganādīnām ānukūlyān niṣevayā
:yūnor ullāsam ārohan bhāvaḥ sambhoga īryate
<p>"Meeting each other and embracing each other are aimed at bringing about the happiness of the lover and the beloved. When this stage becomes increasingly jubilant, the resultant ecstatic emotion is called sambhoga." When awakened, sambhoga is divided into four categories:</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya238791_20" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5285" link="CC Madhya 23.87-91" link_text="CC Madhya 23.87-91">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.87-91|CC Madhya 23.87-91, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī"s twenty-five chief transcendental qualities are: (1) She is very sweet. (2) She is always freshly youthful. (3) Her eyes are restless. (4) She smiles brightly. (5) She has beautiful, auspicious lines. (6) She makes Kṛṣṇa happy with Her bodily aroma. (7) She is very expert in singing. (8) Her speech is charming. (9) She is very expert in joking and speaking pleasantly. (10) She is very humble and meek. (11) She is always full of mercy. (12) She is cunning. (13) She is expert in executing Her duties. (14) She is shy. (15) She is always respectful. (16) She is always calm. (17) She is always grave. (18) She is expert in enjoying life. (19) She is situated at the topmost level of ecstatic love. (20) She is the reservoir of loving affairs in Gokula. (21) She is the most famous of submissive devotees. (22) She is very affectionate to elderly people. (23) She is very submissive to the love of Her friends. (24) She is the chief gopī. (25) She always keeps Kṛṣṇa under Her control. In short, She possesses unlimited transcendental qualities, just as Lord Kṛṣṇa does.’</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya239598_21" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5289" link="CC Madhya 23.95-98" link_text="CC Madhya 23.95-98">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.95-98|CC Madhya 23.95-98, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"For those who are completely washed of all material contamination by pure devotional service, who are always satisfied and brightly enlightened in the heart, who are always attached to understanding the transcendental meaning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, who are always eager to associate with advanced devotees, whose happiness in the service of the lotus feet of Govinda is their very life, who always discharge the confidential activities of love—for such advanced devotees, who are by nature situated in bliss, the seed of love (rati) is expanded in the heart by previous and current reformatory processes. Thus the mixture of ecstatic ingredients becomes tasty and, being within the perception of the devotee, reaches the highest platform of wonder and deep bliss."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2430_22" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5346" link="CC Madhya 24.30" link_text="CC Madhya 24.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.30|CC Madhya 24.30, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“There are ten meanings for the word "bhakti" ("devotional service"). One is sādhana-bhakti, execution of devotional service according to the regulative principles, and the other nine are varieties of prema-bhakti, ecstatic love of Godhead.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The nine varieties of prema-bhakti are rati, prema, sneha, māna, praṇaya, rāga, anurāga, bhāva and mahābhāva—attraction, love, affection, adverse feelings, intimacy, attachment, subattachment, ecstatic love and sublime ecstatic love. For the word sādhana-bhakti there is only one meaning, "the execution of devotional service according to regulative principles."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2431_23" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5347" link="CC Madhya 24.31" link_text="CC Madhya 24.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.31|CC Madhya 24.31, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Next are explained the symptoms of love of Godhead, which can be divided into nine varieties, beginning with attraction and extending up to ecstatic love and finally up to the topmost ecstatic love (mahābhāva).</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2433_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5349" link="CC Madhya 24.33" link_text="CC Madhya 24.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.33|CC Madhya 24.33, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Devotees in Vṛndāvana who are friends of the Lord can increase their ecstatic love to the point of anurāga. Parental affectionate lovers, Kṛṣṇa's father and mother, can increase their love of Godhead up to the end of anurāga.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2434_25" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5350" link="CC Madhya 24.34" link_text="CC Madhya 24.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.34|CC Madhya 24.34, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The gopīs of Vṛndāvana who are attached to Kṛṣṇa in conjugal love can increase their ecstatic love up to the point of mahābhāva, the greatest ecstatic love. These are some of the glorious meanings of the word "bhakti."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2459_26" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5375" link="CC Madhya 24.59" link_text="CC Madhya 24.59">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.59|CC Madhya 24.59, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Although the word "hari" has many different meanings, two of them are foremost. One meaning is that the Lord takes away all inauspicious things from His devotee, and the second meaning is that He attracts the mind by ecstatic love for God.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24157_27" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5473" link="CC Madhya 24.157" link_text="CC Madhya 24.157">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.157|CC Madhya 24.157, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"When one is in ecstatic love with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one"s heart is melted by bhakti-yoga and one feels transcendental bliss. There are bodily symptoms manifest, and due to eagerness, there are tears in the eyes. Thus one is subjected to spiritual bliss. When the heart is overly afflicted, the meditative mind, like a fishing hook, is gradually separated from the object of meditation.’</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24207_28" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5523" link="CC Madhya 24.207" link_text="CC Madhya 24.207">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.207|CC Madhya 24.207, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"My dear friend, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma are passing through the forest leading Their cows with Their cowherd boyfriends. They both carry ropes with which, at the time of milking, They bind the rear legs of the cows. When They play on Their flutes, all moving living entities are stunned, and nonmoving living entities experience ecstatic jubilation by Their sweet music. All these things are certainly very wonderful."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24208_29" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5524" link="CC Madhya 24.208" link_text="CC Madhya 24.208">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.208|CC Madhya 24.208, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"The plants, creepers and trees were full of fruits and flowers due to ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. Indeed, being so full, they were bowing down. They were inspired by such deep love for Kṛṣṇa that they were constantly pouring showers of honey. In this way the gopīs saw all the forests of Vṛndāvana."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24276_30" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5592" link="CC Madhya 24.276" link_text="CC Madhya 24.276">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.276|CC Madhya 24.276, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“When the hunter chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra before his spiritual master, his body trembled and tears welled up in his eyes. Filled with ecstatic love, he raised his hands and began to dance, waving his garments up and down.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24277_31" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5593" link="CC Madhya 24.277" link_text="CC Madhya 24.277">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.277|CC Madhya 24.277, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“When Parvata Muni saw the ecstatic loving symptoms of the hunter, he told Nārada, "Certainly you are a touchstone."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2562_32" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5734" link="CC Madhya 25.62" link_text="CC Madhya 25.62">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.62|CC Madhya 25.62, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon reaching the temple of Bindu Mādhava, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, seeing the beauty of Lord Bindu Mādhava, became overwhelmed in ecstatic love. He then began to dance in the courtyard of the temple.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2567_33" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5739" link="CC Madhya 25.67" link_text="CC Madhya 25.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.67|CC Madhya 25.67, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī saw the Lord, he and his disciples also joined the chanting with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī was charmed by the Lord's dancing and ecstatic love and by the transcendental beauty of His body.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2568_34" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5740" link="CC Madhya 25.68" link_text="CC Madhya 25.68">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.68|CC Madhya 25.68, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Ecstatic spiritual transformations began to take place in the Lord's body. His body trembled, and His voice faltered. He perspired, turned pale and wept a constant flow of tears, which wet all the people standing there. The eruptions on the Lord's body appeared like kadamba flowers.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25140_35" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5812" link="CC Madhya 25.140" link_text="CC Madhya 25.140">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.140|CC Madhya 25.140, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Pure devotees manifest spiritual bodily symptoms of ecstatic love simply by remembering and reminding others of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who takes away everything inauspicious from the devotee. This position is attained by rendering devotional service according to the regulative principles and then rising to the platform of spontaneous love."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25165_36" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5836" link="CC Madhya 25.165" link_text="CC Madhya 25.165">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.165|CC Madhya 25.165, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the inhabitants of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) began chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra in ecstatic love. Sometimes they laughed, sometimes they cried, sometimes they chanted, and sometimes they danced.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25168_37" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5839" link="CC Madhya 25.168" link_text="CC Madhya 25.168">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.168|CC Madhya 25.168, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Among His own associates, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu laughingly said, “I came here to sell My emotional ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25230_38" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5901" link="CC Madhya 25.230" link_text="CC Madhya 25.230">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.230|CC Madhya 25.230, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the other devotees also came and fell down at the Lord's lotus feet. In return, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu embraced them all with great ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25273_39" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5944" link="CC Madhya 25.273" link_text="CC Madhya 25.273">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.273|CC Madhya 25.273, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is exactly like a pleasing, jubilant forest of lotus flowers wherein there is ample honey. I request everyone to taste this honey. If all the mental speculators bring the bees of their minds into this forest of lotus flowers and jubilantly enjoy ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa day and night, their mental speculation will be completely transcendentally satisfied.</p>
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