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sri-rupa-raghunatha pade yara asa
caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
SYNONYMS
sri-rupa—Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha—Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami; pade—at the lotus feet; yara—whose; asa—expectation; caitanya-caritamrta—the book named Caitanya-caritamrta; kahe—describes; krsnadasa—Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.
Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, following in their footsteps.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, Eighteenth Chapter, describing Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s falling into the water of the sea.
The Inconceivable Behavior of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 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 prasada.
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.