Ādi-līlā, Chapter 10
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PURPORT
In the  Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā  (74) it is said that Nakula Brahmacārī displayed the prowess ( āveśa ) and Pradyumna Brahmacārī the appearance ( āvirbhāva ) of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. There are many hundreds and thousands of devotees of Lord Caitanya among whom there are no special symptoms, but when a devotee of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu functions with specific prowess, he displays the feature called  āveśa . Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally spread the  saṅkīrtana  movement, and He advised all the inhabitants of Bhārata-varṣa to take up His cult and preach it all over the world. The visible bodily symptoms of devotees who follow such instructions are called  āveśa . Śrīla Śivānanda Sena observed such  āveśa  symptoms in Nakula Brahmacārī, who displayed symptoms exactly like those of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The  Caitanya-caritāmṛta  states that in this age of Kali the only spiritual function is to broadcast the holy name of the Lord, but this function can be performed only by one who is actually empowered by Lord Kṛṣṇa. The process by which a devotee is thus empowered is called  āveśa , or sometimes it is called  śaktyāveśa .
Pradyumna Brahmacārī was formerly a resident of a village known as Piyārīgañja in Kālnā. There is a description of him in the  Antya-līlā  of  Caitanya-caritāmṛta , Second Chapter, and in the  Antya-līlā  of  Caitanya-bhāgavata , Chapters Three and Nine.
TEXT 60
আম্বাদিল এ সব রস সেম শিবানন্দ ।
বিন্তারি’ কহিব আগে এসব আনন্দ ॥ ৬০ ॥
āsvādila e saba rasa sena śivānanda vistāri’ kahiba āge esaba ānanda
SYNONYMS
āsvādila —tasted;  e —these;  saba —all;  rasa —mellows;  sena śivānanda —Śivānanda Sena;  vistāri’ —describing vividly;  kahiba —I shall speak;  āge —later on;  esaba —all this;  ānanda —transcendental bliss.
TRANSLATION
Śrīla Śivānanda Sena experienced the three features  sākṣāt ,  āveśa  and  āvirbhāva . Later I shall vividly describe this transcendentally blissful subject.
PURPORT
Śrīla Śivānanda Sena has been described by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Mahārāja as follows. He was a resident of Kumārahaṭṭa, which is also known as Hālisahara, and was a great devotee of the Lord. About one and a half miles from Kumārahaṭṭa is another village, known as Kāṅcaḍāpāḍā, in which there are Gaura-Gopāla Deities installed by Śivānanda Sena, who also established a temple of Kṛṣṇarāya that is still