Antya 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

The following is a summary of the Fifteenth Chapter of Antya-lila. After seeing the upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord Jagannatha, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 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 Vrndavana, and when He began to think of Krsna engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again. On the night of the rasa dance, the gopis, bereaved by Krsna's absence, searched for Krsna from one forest to another. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu adopted the same transcendental thoughts as the gopis and was filled with ecstatic emotion. Svarupa Damodara Gosvami recited a verse from Gita-govinda just suitable to the Lord's emotions. Caitanya Mahaprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhavodaya, bhava-sandhi, bhava-sabalya and so on. The Lord experienced all eight kinds of ecstatic transformations, and He relished them very much.