Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 1.144
The Beloved's Picture Fills the Mind
“ ‘O dearly beautiful one, the artistic loveliness of Your picture is now impressed within My mind. Since You are now living within My mind, wherever I wish to run because I am agitated by impressions of You, I find that You, O My friend, are blocking My way.”’
What the purport teaches
- The artistic loveliness of the beloved's picture has become impressed within the speaker's mind.
- The beloved is described as living within that mind. Wherever the agitated speaker wishes to run, the beloved seems to block the way.
- The purport explains that this verse is written in Prakrit, not Sanskrit.
Try this today
Write one sentence describing how the picture continues to affect the speaker's mind.
Ask yourself
How does the image of the beloved blocking every path convey complete absorption?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.