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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.286
চতুর্ভুজ মূর্তি ধরি’ আছেন বসিয়া ।
কৃষ্ণ দেখি’ গোপী কহে নিকটে আসিয়া ॥ ২৮৬ ॥
catur-bhuja mūrti dhari’ āchena vasiyā
kṛṣṇa dekhi’ gopī kahe nikaṭe āsiyā
Kṛṣṇa assumed His four-armed Nārāyaṇa form and sat there. When all the gopīs came, they looked at Him and spoke as follows.
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Kṛṣṇa assumed His four-armed Nārāyaṇa form.
He sat there in that form.
All the gopīs came, looked at Him, and began to speak.
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:
When Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of the four-armed Nārāyaṇa, the gopīs showed their respect, but they were not very interested in Him. In the ecstatic love of the gopīs, all worshipable forms but Kṛṣṇa are rejected.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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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 do you notice about Kṛṣṇa assuming His Nārāyaṇa form?
Read the translation slowly and recall who assumed the four-armed form.
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