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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.290
রাধা দেখি’ কৃষ্ণ তাঁরে হাস্য করিতে ।
সেই চতুর্ভুজ মূর্তি চাহেন রাখিতে ॥ ২৯০ ॥
rādhā dekhi’ kṛṣṇa tāṅre hāsya karite
sei catur-bhuja mūrti cāhena rākhite
When Lord Kṛṣṇa saw Rādhārāṇī, He wanted to maintain the four-armed form to joke with Her.
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Lord Kṛṣṇa saw Rādhārāṇī before Him.
He wanted to maintain His four-armed form.
His purpose was to joke with Her.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhārāṇī”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Kṛṣṇa’s wish to joke with Rādhārāṇī help you notice about this encounter?
Spend a quiet moment recalling that Kṛṣṇa wanted to keep His four-armed form to joke with Rādhārāṇī.
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