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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.233
আবেশেতে শ্রীবাসে প্রভু বংশী ত’ মাগিল ।
শ্রীবাস কহে,—বংশী তোমার গোপী হরি’ নিল ॥ ২৩৩ ॥
āveśete śrīvāse prabhu vaṁśī ta’ māgila
śrīvāsa kahe, — vaṁśī tomāra gopī hari’ nila
In ecstasy the Lord asked Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura to deliver His flute, but Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura replied, “Your flute has been stolen away by the gopīs.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord spoke to Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura in ecstasy.
He asked Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura to deliver His flute.
Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura replied that the gopīs had stolen the flute away.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 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 same Absolute Truth who enjoys as Kṛṣṇa, Śyāmasundara, who plays His flute and dances with the gopīs, sometimes takes birth in a brāhmaṇa family and plays the part of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, accepting the renounced order of life. It appears contradictory that the same Kṛṣṇa accepted the ecstasy of the gopīs, and of course this is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “deliver”
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.
What do I notice about the Lord’s mood in this exchange with Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura?
Read the Lord’s request and Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s reply aloud once, attending to the Lord’s ecstatic mood.
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