Shri Chaitanya Garuda Stambha Lila

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THIS IMAGE IS OF SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU Standing behind the Garuda

stambha, Lord Caitanya gazed at the beautiful moonlike face of Lord

Jagannatha with unblinking eyes. Intense feelings of spiritual rapture

seized Gauranga's body. As a result, His bodily hairs stood up

straight, appearing like the stiffened filaments of a golden kadamba

flower. Tears flowed in five or seven streams from His lotus eyes.

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Feelings of Separation from Krsna

 

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Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura gives the following summary of the

Fourteenth Chapter of Antya-lila. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's feelings

of separation from Krsna resulted in highly elevated transcendental

madness. When He was standing near the Garuda-stambha and praying to

Lord Jagannatha, a woman from Orissa put her foot on the Lord's

shoulder in her great eagerness to see Lord Jagannatha. Govinda

chastised her for this, but Caitanya Mahaprabhu praised her eagerness.

When Caitanya Mahaprabhu went to the temple of Lord Jagannatha, He was

absorbed in ecstatic love and saw only Krsna. As soon as He perceived

this woman, however, His external consciousness immediately returned,

and He saw Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra. Caitanya Mahaprabhu also

saw Krsna in a dream, and He was overwhelmed with ecstatic love. When

He could no longer see Krsna, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu compared Himself

to a yogi and described how that yogi was seeing Vrndavana. Sometimes

all the transcendental ecstatic symptoms were manifest in Him. One

night, Govinda and Svarupa Damodara noticed that although the three

doors to the Lord's room were closed and locked, the Lord was not

present inside. Seeing this, Svarupa Damodara and the other devotees

went outside and saw the Lord lying unconscious by the gate known as

Simha-dvara. His body had become unusually long, and the joints of His

bones were loose. The devotees gradually brought Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu back to His senses by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, and

then they took Him back to His residence. Once Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

mistook Cataka-parvata for Govardhana-parvata. As He ran toward it, He

became stunned, and then the eight ecstatic transformations appeared

in His body due to great love for Krsna. At that time all the devotees

chanted the Hare Krsna mantra to pacify Him.