Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 19 Summary

The following summary of Chapter Nineteen is given by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya. Every year, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked Jagadananda Pandita to visit His mother in Navadvipa with gifts of cloth and prasadam. After one such visit, Jagadananda Pandita returned to Puri with a sonnet that Advaita Acarya had written. When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu read it, His ecstasy was so great that all the devotees 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, Svarupa 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 suddenly seeing Lord Sri Krsna beneath an asoka tree, He exhibited various symptoms of spiritual madness.

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