CHAPTER 19

The Inconceivable Behavior of
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

The following summary of Chapter Nineteen is given by Srila Bhaktivinoda
Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhdsya.

Every year, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked Jagadananda Pandita to visit His
mother in Navadvipa with gifts of cloth and prasdda. After one such visit, Jagada-
nanda Pandita returned to Puri with a sonnet that Advaita Acarya had written.
When Sri Caitanya Mahdaprabhu read it, His ecstasy was so great that all the devo-
tees feared that the Lord would very soon pass away. The Lord’s condition was so
serious that at night He would bruise and bloody His face by rubbing it against the
walls. To stop this, SvarGpa Damodara asked Sankara Pandita to stay at night in
the same room with the Lord.

This chapter further describes how Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu entered the
Jagannatha-vallabha garden during the full-moon night of Vaisakha (April-May)
and experienced various transcendental ecstasies. Overwhelmed with ecstatic
love at suudenly seeing Lord Sri Krsna beneath an asoka tree, He exhibited various
symptoms of spiritual madness.

TEXT 1

ACH BL FRCS TGSSAcarapeg |
ART FAALLAT AYOICA ATTA Bs Wd |

vande tar krsna-caitanyarn
matr-bhakta-siromanim

pralapya mukha-sarigharsi
madhddydane lalasa yah

SYNONYMS

vande —! offer my respectful obeisances; tam—unto Him; krsna-caitanyam—
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; mdatr-bhakta—of great devotees of mothers;
Siromanim—the crown jewel; pralapya—talking like a madman; mukha-

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