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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.284
দূর হৈতে কৃষ্ণে দেখি’ বলে গোপীগণ ।
“এই দেখ কুঞ্জের ভিতর ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন ॥” ২৮৪ ॥
dūra haite kṛṣṇe dekhi’ bale gopī-gaṇa
“ei dekha kuñjera bhitara vrajendra-nandana”
“Just see!” the gopīs said, seeing Kṛṣṇa from a distant place. “Here within a bush is Kṛṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja.”
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The gopīs saw Kṛṣṇa from a distant place.
They drew attention to Him with the words “Just see!”
They identified Him within the bush as Kṛṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja.
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 King of Vrajabhūmi is Nanda Mahārāja, and the same person in Navadvīpa is Jagannātha Miśra, the father of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Similarly, mother Yaśodā is the Queen of Vrajabhūmi, and in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya she is Śacīmātā.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”, “nanda”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do I notice about the way the gopīs identify Kṛṣṇa?
Read the gopīs’ words aloud once, paying attention to “the son of Nanda Mahārāja.”
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