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Chapter Summary

Purport
The following summary of chapter nineteen is given by ÅšrÄ«la Bhaktivinoda ṬhÄkura in his Amá¹›ta-pravÄha-bhÄá¹£ya. Every year, ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu asked JagadÄnanda Paṇá¸ita to visit His mother in NavadvÄ«pa with gifts of cloth and prasÄdam. After one such visit, JagadÄnanda Paṇá¸ita returned to PurÄ« with a sonnet that Advaita Ä€cÄrya had written. When ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu 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, SvarÅ«pa DÄmodara asked Åšaá¹…kara Paṇá¸ita to stay at night in the same room with the Lord.This chapter further describes how Lord ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu entered the JagannÄtha-vallabha garden during the full-moon night of VaiÅ›Äkha (April-May) and experienced various transcendental ecstasies. Overwhelmed with ecstatic love at suddenly seeing Lord ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa beneath an aÅ›oka tree, He exhibited various symptoms of spiritual madness.