CHAPTER 15

The Transcendental Madness
of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

The following is a summary of the Fifteenth Chapter of Antya-lila. After seeing the
upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord Jagannatha, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu once more
began to feel ecstatic emotions. When He saw the garden on the beach by the
sea, He again thought that He was in Vrndavana, and when He began to think of
Krsna engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him
again. On the night of the rasa dance, the gopis, bereaved by Krsna’s absence,
searched for Krsna from one forest to another. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu adopted
the same transcendental thoughts as the gopis and was filled with ecstatic emo-
tion. Svaripa Damodara Gosvami recited a verse from Gita-govinda just suitable
to the Lord’s emotions. Caitanya Mahaprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic
transformations known as bhavodaya, bhava-sandhi, bhava-sdbalya and so on.
The Lord experienced all eight kinds of ecstatic transformations, and He relished
them very much.

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durgame krsna-bhavabchau
nimagnonmagna-cetasa

gaurena harina prema-
maryada bhari darsita

SYNONYMS

durgame—very difficult to understand; krsna-bhava-abdhau—in the ocean of
ecstatic love for Krsna; nimagna—submerged; unmagna-cetasa —His heart being
absorbed; gaurena—by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; harina—by the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead; prema-maryddd—the exalted position of transcendental
love; bhdri—in various ways; darsita—was exhibited.

TRANSLATION

The ocean of ecstatic love for Krsna is very difficult to understand, even for
such demigods as Lord Brahma. By enacting His pastimes, Sri Caitanya

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