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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.69
সংকল্পো বিদিতঃ সাধ্ব্যো ভবতীনাং মদৰ্চনম্ ।
ময়ানুমোদিতঃ সোঽসৌ সত্যো ভবিতুমর্হতি ॥ ৬৯ ॥
saṅkalpo viditaḥ sādhvyo
bhavatīnāṁ mad-arcanam
mayānumoditaḥ so ’sau
satyo bhavitum arhati
“ ‘My dear gopīs, I accept your desire to have Me as your husband and thus worship Me. I wish your desire to be fulfilled because it deserves to be so.”’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The gopīs desired Kṛṣṇa as their husband but could not express this because of their bashfulness.
Kṛṣṇa told them that He had understood and approved their desire. He explained that through the pastime of stealing their garments, He had accepted them as His wives.
The purport cautions against criticizing from one’s own angle of vision without knowing the Lord’s or the gopīs’ purpose. The Lord Himself explains the real purpose of vastra-haraṇa here.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Parental tenderness and play. Nimāi’s childhood alternates affection, mischief, and revelations.
The mood of Ādi 14 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The chapter further describes how He displayed Himself as a naughty boy, how when His mother fainted He brought a coconut to her on His head, how He joked with girls of the same age on the banks of the Ganges, how He accepted worshipful paraphernalia from Śrīmatī Lakṣmīdevī, how He sat down in a garbage pit and instructed His mother in transcendental knowledge, how He left the pit on the order of His mother, and how He dealt with His father with full affection.”Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 14
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīs”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can listening to the Lord’s own explanation help you avoid misunderstanding this pastime?
Reread the translation and identify the words in which Kṛṣṇa accepts the gopīs’ desire.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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