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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.21
প্রভুর বিরহ–সৰ্প লক্ষ্মীরে দংশিল ।
বিরহ–সৰ্প–বিষে তাঁর পরলোক হৈল ॥ ২১ ॥
prabhura viraha-sarpa lakṣmīre daṁśila
viraha-sarpa-viṣe tāṅra paraloka haila
The snake of separation bit Lakṣmīdevī, and its poison caused her death. Thus she passed to the next world. She went back home, back to Godhead.
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The translation describes Lakṣmīdevī’s separation as a snake whose poison caused her death. She went back home, back to Godhead.
One’s practice in thinking throughout life determines the quality of one’s thoughts at death. According to those thoughts, one obtains a suitable body.
Lakṣmīdevī, the goddess of fortune from Vaikuṇṭha, was absorbed in thought of the Lord in separation. She therefore returned to Vaikuṇṭhaloka after death.
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The purport of CC Ādi 16.21 quotesBG 8.6
As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā (8.6), yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram: one’s practice in thinking throughout his entire life determines the quality of his thoughts at death, and thus at death one obtains a suitable body.
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Grief and transformed pride. Lakṣmīdevī’s departure brings sorrow; Keśava Kāśmīrī’s pride yields to surrender.
The mood of Ādi 16 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:
While Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was touring East Bengal, His wife, Lakṣmīdevī, was bitten by a serpent or by the serpent of separation, and thus she left this world. When the Lord returned home, He saw that His mother was overwhelmed with grief because of Lakṣmīdevī’s death.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “separation”
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What thoughts are you cultivating through your daily habits?
Pause for one quiet minute today to remember the Lord.
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