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  "name":"Cc. Antya 15.5",
  "h1":"Cc. Antya 15.5",
  "label":"Text 5",
  "title":"Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 15.5",
  "description":"The Lord would maintain Himself in three kinds of consciousness: sometimes He merged totally in ecstatic emotion, sometimes He was in partial external consciousness and sometimes in full external consciousness."

} —

Cc. Antya 15.5

Text

kabhu bhāve magna, kabhu ardha-bāhya-sphūrti
kabhu bāhya-sphūrti,—tina rīte prabhu-sthiti

Synonyms

kabhu—sometimes; bhāve—in ecstatic emotion; magna—merged; kabhu—sometimes; ardha—half; bāhya-sphūrti—in external consciousness; kabhu—sometimes; bāhya-sphūrti—in full external consciousness; tina rīte—in three ways; prabhu-sthiti—the situation of the Lord.

Translation

The Lord would maintain Himself in three kinds of consciousness: sometimes He merged totally in ecstatic emotion, sometimes He was in partial external consciousness and sometimes in full external consciousness.