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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.278
গোপিকা–ভাবের এই সুদৃঢ় নিশ্চয় ।
ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন বিনা অন্যত্র না হয় ॥ ২৭৮ ॥
gopikā-bhāvera ei sudṛḍha niścaya
vrajendra-nandana vinā anyatra nā haya
It is firmly concluded that the ecstatic mood of the gopīs is possible only before Kṛṣṇa, and no one else.
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The ecstatic mood of the gopīs is possible only before Kṛṣṇa.
No one else can evoke this ecstatic mood.
The translation presents this as a firm conclusion.
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.
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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What does this firm conclusion show me about the gopīs’ feelings for Kṛṣṇa?
Read the translation slowly, pausing over the words “only before Kṛṣṇa.”
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