Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 1.167
The Creative Power of Loving Glances
“ ‘O beautiful-faced one, who is this creative person standing before us? With the sharp chisels of His loving glances, He is splitting the hard stones of many women’s devotion to their husbands. And with the luster of His body, surpassing the brilliance of countless emeralds, He is simultaneously constructing private meeting places for His pastimes.’
What the purport teaches
- Rādhārāṇī asks Lalitādevī who this creative person standing before them is.
- His loving glances are compared to sharp chisels, splitting the hard stones of many women’s devotion to their husbands.
- His bodily luster surpasses countless emeralds. The verse portrays that luster as constructing private meeting places for His pastimes.
Try this today
Identify the two things His glances and bodily luster are poetically described as doing.
Ask yourself
What do the images of chisels and construction convey about the power of His beauty?
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.