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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 17.280
ইহা ছাড়ি’ কৃষ্ণ যদি হয় অন্যাকার ।
গোপিকার ভাব নাহি যায় নিকট তাহার ॥ ২৮০ ॥
ihā chāḍi’ kṛṣṇa yadi haya anyākāra
gopikāra bhāva nāhi yāya nikaṭa tāhāra
If Lord Kṛṣṇa gives up this original form and assumes another Viṣṇu form, nearness to Him cannot invoke the ecstatic mood of the gopīs.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Kṛṣṇa may give up His original form and assume another Viṣṇu form.
Nearness to Him in that other form cannot invoke the gopīs’ ecstatic mood.
For the gopīs, nearness alone does not evoke the ecstasy associated with His original form.
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:
All the Lord’s other associates, situated in their original love, engage in the service of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. 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.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”, “gopīs’”
Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association
Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “associated”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this distinction help me notice about the gopīs’ attachment to Kṛṣṇa’s original form?
Write one sentence describing why nearness to another Viṣṇu form does not evoke the gopīs’ ecstatic mood.
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