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Chapter Summary

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The following is a summary of the fifteenth chapter. After seeing the upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord JagannÄtha, ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu 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 Vá¹›ndÄvana, and when He began to think of Kṛṣṇa engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again. On the night of the rÄsa dance, the gopÄ«s, bereaved by Kṛṣṇa’s absence, searched for Kṛṣṇa from one forest to another. ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu adopted the same transcendental thoughts as those of the gopÄ«s and was filled with ecstatic emotion. SvarÅ«pa DÄmodara GosvÄmÄ« recited a verse from the GÄ«ta-govinda just suitable to the Lord’s emotions. Caitanya MahÄprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhÄvodaya, bhÄva-sandhi, bhÄva-Å›Äbalya and so on. The Lord experienced all eight kinds of ecstatic transformations, and He relished them very much.