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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.247
একদিন গোপীভাবে গৃহেতে বসিয়া ।
‘গোপী’ ‘গোপী’ নাম লয় বিষণ্ণ হঞা ॥ ২৪৭ ॥
eka-dina gopī-bhāve gṛhete vasiyā
‘gopī’ ‘gopī’ nāma laya viṣaṇṇa hañā
One day the Lord, in the ecstasy of the gopīs, was sitting in His house. Very morose in separation, He was calling, “Gopī! Gopī!”
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One day the Lord was sitting in His house in the ecstasy of the gopīs.
He was very morose in separation.
In that mood, He was calling, “Gopī! Gopī!”
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:
Śrī Advaita Prabhu exhibits the ecstasy of both fraternity and servitude. All the Lord’s other associates, situated in their original love, engage in the service of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.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.
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”
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 does the Lord’s feeling of separation help you understand His calling?
Spend a quiet minute reflecting on the feeling of separation described in this verse.
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