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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.277
গোপী–ভাব যাতে প্রভু ধরিয়াছে একান্ত ।
ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দনে মানে আপনার কান্ত ॥ ২৭৭ ॥
gopī-bhāva yāte prabhu dhariyāche ekānta
vrajendra-nandane māne āpanāra kānta
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the mood of the gopīs, who accept Vrajendranandana, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, as their lover.
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Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the mood of the gopīs.
The gopīs accept Śrī Kṛṣṇa as their lover.
The translation names their beloved as Vrajendranandana, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
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:
But if we accept the inconceivable energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we can understand that everything is possible. There is no need of mundane arguments in this connection, because mundane arguments are meaningless in regard to inconceivable potency.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.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “lover”
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.
Toward whom is the loving mood accepted by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu directed?
Read the translation once slowly, reflecting on the gopīs’ love for Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
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