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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="CCMadhya611_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="982" link="CC Madhya 6.11" link_text="CC Madhya 6.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.11|CC Madhya 6.11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sitting beside Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he thought, "This is a transcendental ecstatic transformation brought about by love of Kṛṣṇa."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya612_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="983" link="CC Madhya 6.12" link_text="CC Madhya 6.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.12|CC Madhya 6.12, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon seeing the sign of sūddīpta-sāttvika, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya could immediately understand the transcendental ecstatic transformation in the body of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Such a sign takes place only in the bodies of eternally liberated devotees.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya613_2" 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, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya considered, "The uncommon ecstatic symptoms of adhirūḍha-bhāva are appearing in the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. This is very wonderful! How are they possible in the body of a human being?"</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya613_3" 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="CCMadhya626_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="997" link="CC Madhya 6.26" link_text="CC Madhya 6.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.26|CC Madhya 6.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Upon seeing Lord Jagannātha, Caitanya Mahāprabhu became ecstatic and fell unconscious, and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya has taken Him to his home in this condition."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya690_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1060" link="CC Madhya 6.90" link_text="CC Madhya 6.90">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.90|CC Madhya 6.90, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Gopīnātha Ācārya continued, “You have seen the symptoms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu during His absorption in an ecstatic mood."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya691_6" 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. 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="CCMadhya6207_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1176" link="CC Madhya 6.207" link_text="CC Madhya 6.207">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.207|CC Madhya 6.207, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After hearing the one hundred verses, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu happily embraced Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, who was immediately overwhelmed in ecstatic love of Godhead and fell unconscious.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya6208_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1177" link="CC Madhya 6.208" link_text="CC Madhya 6.208">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.208|CC Madhya 6.208, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Out of ecstatic love of God, the Bhaṭṭācārya shed tears, and his body was stunned. He exhibited an ecstatic mood, and he perspired, shook and trembled. He sometimes danced, sometimes chanted, sometimes cried and sometimes fell down to touch the lotus feet of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya6227_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1196" link="CC Madhya 6.227" link_text="CC Madhya 6.227">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.227|CC Madhya 6.227, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very pleased to see this. He became ecstatic in love of Godhead and embraced Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya6228_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1197" link="CC Madhya 6.228" link_text="CC Madhya 6.228">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.228|CC Madhya 6.228, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord and the servant embraced each other and began to dance. Simply by touching each other, they became ecstatic.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya75_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1259" link="CC Madhya 7.5" link_text="CC Madhya 7.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.5|CC Madhya 7.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At the end of the month of Phālguna, He witnessed the Dola-yātrā ceremony, and in His usual ecstatic love of God, He chanted and danced in various ways on the occasion.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya738_12" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1291" link="CC Madhya 7.38" link_text="CC Madhya 7.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.38|CC Madhya 7.38, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"When, along the way, You fall unconscious in ecstatic love of Godhead, who will protect Your belongings—the waterpot, garments and so forth?"</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya779_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1332" link="CC Madhya 7.79" link_text="CC Madhya 7.79">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.79|CC Madhya 7.79, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was naturally very beautiful. It was like molten gold dressed in saffron cloth. Indeed, He was most beautiful for being ornamented with the ecstatic symptoms, which caused His bodily hair to stand on end, tears to well up in His eyes, and His body to tremble and perspire all over.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya795_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1348" link="CC Madhya 7.95" link_text="CC Madhya 7.95">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.95|CC Madhya 7.95, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Almost like a mad lion, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went on His tour filled with ecstatic love and performing saṅkīrtana, chanting Kṛṣṇa's names as follows.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya7115_15" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1368" link="CC Madhya 7.115" link_text="CC Madhya 7.115">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.115|CC Madhya 7.115, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After hearing of these wonderful occurrences, everyone came to see Him there. When they saw the beauty of the Lord and His ecstatic condition, they were all struck with wonder.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8Summary_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1407" link="CC Madhya 8 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 8 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8 Summary|CC Madhya 8 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Then Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya explained unalloyed devotional service, love of Godhead, and serving the Lord in the moods of pure servitude, fraternity and parental love. Finally he spoke of serving the Lord in conjugal love. He then spoke of how conjugal love can be developed in various ways. This conjugal love attains its highest perfection in Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s love for Kṛṣṇa. He next described the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the transcendental mellows of love of God. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya then recited a verse of his own concerning the platform of ecstatic vision, technically called prema-vilāsa-vivarta. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya also explained that all stages of conjugal love can be attained through the mercy of the residents of Vṛndāvana, especially by the mercy of the gopīs. All these subject matters were thus vividly described.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya84_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1411" link="CC Madhya 8.4" link_text="CC Madhya 8.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.4|CC Madhya 8.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon seeing the Deity of Lord Nṛsiṁha in the temple, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu offered His respectful obeisances by falling flat. Then, in ecstatic love, He performed various dances, chanted, and offered prayers.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya822_18" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1429" link="CC Madhya 8.22" link_text="CC Madhya 8.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.22|CC Madhya 8.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then embraced Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya very firmly. Indeed, both the master and the servant almost lost consciousness due to ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya824_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1431" link="CC Madhya 8.24" link_text="CC Madhya 8.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.24|CC Madhya 8.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When they embraced each other, ecstatic symptoms—paralysis, perspiration, tears, shivering, paleness and standing up of the bodily hairs—appeared. The word "Kṛṣṇa" came from their mouths falteringly.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya825_20" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1432" link="CC Madhya 8.25" link_text="CC Madhya 8.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.25|CC Madhya 8.25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the stereotyped, ritualistic brāhmaṇas who were following the Vedic principles saw this ecstatic manifestation of love, they were struck with wonder. All these brāhmaṇas began to reflect as follows.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya868_21" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1474" link="CC Madhya 8.68" link_text="CC Madhya 8.68">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.68|CC Madhya 8.68, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">At this point, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied, "This is all right, but still you can speak more on the subject."</p>
<p>Rāmānanda Rāya then replied, "Ecstatic love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the essence of all perfection."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya868_22" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1474" link="CC Madhya 8.68" link_text="CC Madhya 8.68">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.68|CC Madhya 8.68, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu actually accepted this verse (jñāne prayāsam) as the basic principle of perfection. One has to practice this principle in order to make further progress. When further progress is actually made, one comes to the platform of ecstatic loving service to the Lord. This first stage is technically called sādhana-bhakti, or devotional service in practice. The result of sādhana-bhakti must be ecstatic love, attachment for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which is also called prema-bhakti. In the neophyte stage, sādhana-bhakti includes faith, association with devotees, and practicing devotional service. Thus one is freed from all unwanted things. One then becomes fixed in devotional service and increases his desire to act in devotional service. Thus one becomes attached to the Lord and His devotional service.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya880_23" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1486" link="CC Madhya 8.80" link_text="CC Madhya 8.80">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.80|CC Madhya 8.80, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This verse ([[Vanisource:SB 10.47.60|SB 10.47.60]]) was spoken by Uddhava when he visited Śrī Vṛndāvana to deliver a message from Kṛṣṇa to the gopīs. Uddhava remained in Vṛndāvana to observe the activities of the gopīs there. When he saw the ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa in separation manifested by the gopīs, he appreciated their supreme love and therefore expressed his feelings in this verse. He admitted that the fortune of the gopīs could not be compared even to the fortune of the goddess of fortune, to say nothing of the beautiful girls in the heavenly planets.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8110_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1516" link="CC Madhya 8.110" link_text="CC Madhya 8.110">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.110|CC Madhya 8.110, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Lord Kṛṣṇa is equal to everyone in His general dealings, but due to the conflicting ecstatic love of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, there were opposing elements."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8139_25" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1544" link="CC Madhya 8.139" link_text="CC Madhya 8.139">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.139|CC Madhya 8.139, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Just as Kṛṣṇa is completely spiritual, the gopīs are also spiritual, and this is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.37):</p>
:ānanda-cin-maya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis
:tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ
:goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
<p>"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord. He resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency (hlādinī). Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8163_26" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1568" link="CC Madhya 8.163" link_text="CC Madhya 8.163">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.163|CC Madhya 8.163, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency (hlādinī). Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa.""</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8166_27" 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;">Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s earrings are the holy names of Kṛṣṇa, as well as the hearing of His name and fame. Her lips are always reddish due to the betel nut of ecstatic affection for Kṛṣṇa. The black ointment around Her eyes is Her tricky behavior with Kṛṣṇa brought about by love. 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.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8175_28" 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, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Also ornamenting Her body are the twenty kinds of ecstatic symptoms beginning with kila-kiñcita. Her transcendental qualities constitute the flower garland hanging in fullness over Her body."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8194_29" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1598" link="CC Madhya 8.194" link_text="CC Madhya 8.194">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.194|CC Madhya 8.194, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Alas, before We met there was an initial attachment between Us brought about by an exchange of glances. In this way attachment evolved. That attachment has gradually grown, and there is no limit to it. Now that attachment has become a natural sequence between Ourselves. It is not that it is due to Kṛṣṇa, the enjoyer, nor is it due to Me, for I am the enjoyed. It is not like that. This attachment was made possible by mutual meeting. This mutual exchange of attraction is known as manobhava, or Cupid. Kṛṣṇa"s mind and My mind have merged together. Now, during this time of separation, it is very difficult to explain these loving affairs. My dear friend, though Kṛṣṇa might have forgotten all these things, you can understand and bring this message to Him. But during Our first meeting there was no messenger between Us, nor did I request anyone to see Him. Indeed, Cupid's five arrows were Our via media. Now, during this separation, that attraction has increased to another ecstatic state. My dear friend, please act as a messenger on My behalf, because if one is in love with a beautiful person, this is the consequence.’"</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8220_30" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1623" link="CC Madhya 8.220" link_text="CC Madhya 8.220">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.220|CC Madhya 8.220, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“One who is attracted by that ecstatic love of the gopīs does not care about popular opinion or the regulative principles of Vedic life. Rather, he completely surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa and renders service unto Him."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8234_31" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1637" link="CC Madhya 8.234" link_text="CC Madhya 8.234">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.234|CC Madhya 8.234, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The entire night was passed in this way, in ecstatic love of Godhead. In the morning they both departed to tend to their respective duties.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8272_32" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1675" link="CC Madhya 8.272" link_text="CC Madhya 8.272">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.272|CC Madhya 8.272, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied, “You have a deep love for Kṛṣṇa, and one who has such deep ecstatic love for the Lord naturally sees things in such a way. Please take this from Me to be certain."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8274_33" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1677" link="CC Madhya 8.274" link_text="CC Madhya 8.274">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.274|CC Madhya 8.274, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Due to his deep ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa, the mahā-bhāgavata sees Kṛṣṇa everywhere and nothing else. This is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.38): premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti.</p>
<p>As soon as a devotee sees something—be it movable or inert—he immediately remembers Kṛṣṇa. An advanced devotee is advanced in knowledge. This knowledge is very natural to a devotee, for he has already read in the Bhagavad-gītā how to awaken Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8276_34" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1679" link="CC Madhya 8.276" link_text="CC Madhya 8.276">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.276|CC Madhya 8.276, 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="CCMadhya8277_35" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1680" link="CC Madhya 8.277" link_text="CC Madhya 8.277">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.277|CC Madhya 8.277, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, "My dear Rāya, you are an advanced devotee and are always filled with ecstatic love for Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Therefore whatever you see—anywhere and everywhere—simply awakens your Kṛṣṇa consciousness."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8282_36" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1685" link="CC Madhya 8.282" link_text="CC Madhya 8.282">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.282|CC Madhya 8.282, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of all pleasure, and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the personification of ecstatic love of Godhead. These two forms had combined as one in Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. This being the case, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu revealed His real form to Rāmānanda Rāya.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8288_37" 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;">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="CCMadhya8291_38" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1694" link="CC Madhya 8.291" link_text="CC Madhya 8.291">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.291|CC Madhya 8.291, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All these conversations between Rāmānanda Rāya and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appear ludicrous to a common man who is not a devotee. The entire world is filled with material conceptions, and people are unable to understand these conversations due to the conditioning of mundane philosophy. Those who are overly attached to mundane activities cannot understand the ecstatic conversations between Rāmānanda Rāya and Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Consequently the Lord requested that Rāmānanda Rāya keep all these conversations secret and not expose them to the general populace. If one is actually advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he can understand these confidential talks; otherwise they appear crazy. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore informed Rāmānanda Rāya that they both appeared like madmen and were therefore on the same platform.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya967_39" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1783" link="CC Madhya 9.67" link_text="CC Madhya 9.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.67|CC Madhya 9.67, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In great ecstatic love, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu offered obeisances and prayers unto Lord Nṛsiṁha. The people were astonished to see Lord Caitanya's influence.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya981_40" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1797" link="CC Madhya 9.81" link_text="CC Madhya 9.81">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.81|CC Madhya 9.81, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the temple of Raṅganātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chanted and danced in ecstatic love of Godhead. Seeing His performance, everyone was struck with wonder.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya988_41" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1804" link="CC Madhya 9.88" link_text="CC Madhya 9.88">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.88|CC Madhya 9.88, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The beauty of Lord Caitanya's body and His ecstatic love of God were witnessed by everyone. Many people used to come see Him, and as soon as they saw Him, all their unhappiness and distress vanished.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya996_42" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1812" link="CC Madhya 9.96" link_text="CC Madhya 9.96">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.96|CC Madhya 9.96, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although the brāhmaṇa could not pronounce the words very well due to illiteracy, he still experienced ecstatic symptoms while reading the Bhagavad-gītā. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very pleased to observe these symptoms, and this indicates that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased by devotion, not by erudite scholarship. Even though the words were imperfectly pronounced, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, did not think this very serious. Rather, the Lord was pleased by the bhāva (devotion).</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya997_43" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1813" link="CC Madhya 9.97" link_text="CC Madhya 9.97">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.97|CC Madhya 9.97, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked the brāhmaṇa, "My dear sir, why are you in such ecstatic love? Which portion of the Bhagavad-gītā gives you such transcendental pleasure?"</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9100_44" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1816" link="CC Madhya 9.100" link_text="CC Madhya 9.100">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.100|CC Madhya 9.100, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“While seeing Lord Kṛṣṇa sitting in a chariot and instructing Arjuna, I am filled with ecstatic happiness.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9149_45" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1865" link="CC Madhya 9.149" link_text="CC Madhya 9.149">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.149|CC Madhya 9.149, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Although Kṛṣṇa assumed the four-armed form of Nārāyaṇa, He could not attract the serious attention of the gopīs in ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9150_46" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1866" link="CC Madhya 9.150" link_text="CC Madhya 9.150">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.150|CC Madhya 9.150, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Once Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa playfully manifested Himself as Nārāyaṇa, with four victorious hands and a very beautiful form. When the gopīs saw this exalted form, however, their ecstatic feelings were crippled. A learned scholar, therefore, cannot understand the gopīs" ecstatic feelings, which are firmly fixed upon the original form of Lord Kṛṣṇa as the son of Nanda Mahārāja. The wonderful feelings of the gopīs in ecstatic parama-rasa with Kṛṣṇa constitute the greatest mystery in spiritual life.’”</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9236_47" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1951" link="CC Madhya 9.236" link_text="CC Madhya 9.236">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.236|CC Madhya 9.236, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the people there were greatly astonished to see the ecstatic pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. They all received the Lord very well.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9238_48" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1953" link="CC Madhya 9.238" link_text="CC Madhya 9.238">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.238|CC Madhya 9.238, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was greatly happy to find a chapter of that scripture, and symptoms of ecstatic transformation—trembling, tears, perspiration, trance and jubilation—were manifest in His body.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9249_49" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1963" link="CC Madhya 9.249" link_text="CC Madhya 9.249">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.249|CC Madhya 9.249, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu received great pleasure in seeing this beautiful form of Gopāla. For a long time He danced and chanted in ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9251_50" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1965" link="CC Madhya 9.251" link_text="CC Madhya 9.251">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.251|CC Madhya 9.251, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Later, after seeing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in ecstatic love, they were struck with wonder. Then, considering Him a Vaiṣṇava, they gave Him a nice reception.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9263_51" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1976" link="CC Madhya 9.263" link_text="CC Madhya 9.263">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.263|CC Madhya 9.263, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One cannot be elevated to the highest platform of devotional service by karma-kāṇḍa or jñāna-kāṇḍa. Pure devotional service can be understood and attained only through the association of pure devotees. In this regard, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura states that there are two types of karma-kāṇḍa activities—pious and impious. Pious activities are certainly better than impious activities, but even pious activities cannot bring about ecstatic love of God, Kṛṣṇa. Pious and impious activities can bring about material happiness and distress, but there is no possibility of one's becoming a pure devotee simply by acting piously or impiously. Bhakti, devotional service, means satisfying Kṛṣṇa. In every revealed scripture, whether stressing jñāna-kāṇḍa or karma-kāṇḍa, the principle of renunciation is always praised. The ripened fruit of Vedic knowledge, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, is the supreme Vedic evidence.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9283_52" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1996" link="CC Madhya 9.283" link_text="CC Madhya 9.283">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.283|CC Madhya 9.283, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chanted and danced in various ways as usual. A brāhmaṇa, seeing Him in ecstatic love, was very pleased and invited the Lord to his home for lunch.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9287_53" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2000" link="CC Madhya 9.287" link_text="CC Madhya 9.287">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.287|CC Madhya 9.287, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As soon as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw Śrī Raṅga Purī, He immediately offered him obeisances in ecstatic love, falling flat on the ground. The symptoms of transcendental transformation were visible—namely, tears, jubilation, trembling and perspiration.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9288_54" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2001" link="CC Madhya 9.288" link_text="CC Madhya 9.288">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.288|CC Madhya 9.288, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon seeing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in such an ecstatic mood, Śrī Raṅga Purī said, “Your Holiness, please get up."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9289_55" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2002" link="CC Madhya 9.289" link_text="CC Madhya 9.289">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.289|CC Madhya 9.289, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Your Holiness is certainly related to Śrī Mādhavendra Purī, without whom there is no fragrance of ecstatic love."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9289_56" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2002" link="CC Madhya 9.289" link_text="CC Madhya 9.289">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.289|CC Madhya 9.289, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura remarks that up to the advent of His Holiness Śrīpāda Lakṣmīpati Tīrtha, it was the system in the disciplic succession of Madhvācārya to worship Lord Kṛṣṇa alone. After Śrīla Mādhavendra Purī, worship of both Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa was established. For this reason Śrī Mādhavendra Purī is accepted as the root of worship in ecstatic love. Unless one is connected to the disciplic succession of Mādhavendra Purī, there is no possibility of awakening the symptoms of ecstatic love. The word gosāñi is significant in this connection. The spiritual master who is fully surrendered unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead and has no business other than the Lord's service is called the best of the paramahaṁsas. A paramahaṁsa has no program for sense gratification; he is interested only in satisfying the senses of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9321_57" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2034" link="CC Madhya 9.321" link_text="CC Madhya 9.321">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.321|CC Madhya 9.321, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In great ecstatic love they both began to cry, and thus their minds were slackened.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9340_58" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2053" link="CC Madhya 9.340" link_text="CC Madhya 9.340">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.340|CC Madhya 9.340, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Nityānanda Rāya, Jagadānanda, Dāmodara Paṇḍita and Mukunda all became ecstatic in their happiness, and dancing along the way, they went to meet the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9342_59" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2055" link="CC Madhya 9.342" link_text="CC Madhya 9.342">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.342|CC Madhya 9.342, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord was also filled with ecstatic love, and He embraced them all. Out of their love, they began to cry with pleasure.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9345_60" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2058" link="CC Madhya 9.345" link_text="CC Madhya 9.345">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.345|CC Madhya 9.345, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya cried in great ecstatic love. Then the Lord, accompanied by them all, went to the temple of Jagannātha.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9346_61" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2059" link="CC Madhya 9.346" link_text="CC Madhya 9.346">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.346|CC Madhya 9.346, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Due to ecstatic love experienced upon visiting Lord Jagannātha, inundations of trembling, perspiration, tears and jubilation swept the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9347_62" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2060" link="CC Madhya 9.347" link_text="CC Madhya 9.347">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.347|CC Madhya 9.347, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In ecstatic love Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu danced and chanted. At that time all the attendants and priests came to offer Him a garland and the remnants of Lord Jagannātha's food.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9360_63" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2073" link="CC Madhya 9.360" link_text="CC Madhya 9.360">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.360|CC Madhya 9.360, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Whoever hears of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's pilgrimage to various holy places attains the riches of very deep ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9360_64" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2073" link="CC Madhya 9.360" link_text="CC Madhya 9.360">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.360|CC Madhya 9.360, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">To set the example, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally visited temples in various holy places. Wherever He visited, He immediately exhibited His ecstatic love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When a Vaiṣṇava visits the temple of a demigod, his vision of that demigod is different from the vision of the impersonalists and Māyāvādīs. The Brahma-saṁhitā supports this. A Vaiṣṇava's visit to the temple of Lord Śiva, for example, is different from a nondevotee's visit. The nondevotee considers the deity of Lord Śiva an imaginary form because he ultimately thinks that the Supreme Absolute Truth is void. However, a Vaiṣṇava sees Lord Śiva as being simultaneously one with and different from the Supreme Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya9364_65" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2077" link="CC Madhya 9.364" link_text="CC Madhya 9.364">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.364|CC Madhya 9.364, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The more one hears the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu with faith, analytically studying them, the more one attains the ecstatic riches of love of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10109_66" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2188" link="CC Madhya 10.109" link_text="CC Madhya 10.109">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.109|CC Madhya 10.109, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After taking permission from his sannyāsa-guru, Svarūpa Dāmodara went to Nīlācala and accepted the shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Then all day and night, in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa, he enjoyed transcendental mellows in the loving service of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10111_67" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2190" link="CC Madhya 10.111" link_text="CC Madhya 10.111">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.111|CC Madhya 10.111, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara was the personification of ecstatic love, fully cognizant of the transcendental mellows in relationship with Kṛṣṇa. He directly represented Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as His second expansion.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10120_68" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2199" link="CC Madhya 10.120" link_text="CC Madhya 10.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.120|CC Madhya 10.120, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu raised Svarūpa Dāmodara to his feet and embraced him. They both became ecstatic in love and fell unconscious.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10128_69" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2207" link="CC Madhya 10.128" link_text="CC Madhya 10.128">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.128|CC Madhya 10.128, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara also offered his worshipful prayers at the lotus feet of Paramānanda Purī, who, in return, embraced him in ecstatic love.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10179_70" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2258" link="CC Madhya 10.179" link_text="CC Madhya 10.179">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.179|CC Madhya 10.179, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied, "You have a deep ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa; therefore wherever you turn your eyes, you simply heighten your Kṛṣṇa consciousness."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10181_71" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2260" link="CC Madhya 10.181" link_text="CC Madhya 10.181">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.181|CC Madhya 10.181, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Without having ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa, one cannot see Him directly. Therefore through the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Brahmānanda Bhāratī has acquired direct vision of the Lord."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10181_72" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2260" link="CC Madhya 10.181" link_text="CC Madhya 10.181">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.181|CC Madhya 10.181, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "You are Brahmānanda Bhāratī, an advanced devotee who ecstatically loves the Supreme Lord. Therefore you see Kṛṣṇa everywhere, and there is no doubt about it." Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya was a mediator between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Brahmānanda Bhāratī, and his judgment was that an advanced devotee like Brahmānanda Bhāratī was seeing Kṛṣṇa by Kṛṣṇa's mercy. Kṛṣṇa directly presents Himself before the vision of an advanced devotee. Since Brahmānanda Bhāratī was an advanced devotee, he saw Kṛṣṇa in the person of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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