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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.292
রাধার বিশুদ্ধ–ভাবের অচিন্ত্য প্রভাব ।
যে কৃষ্ণেরে কইলা দ্বিভুজ স্বভাব ॥ ২৯২ ॥
rādhāra viśuddha-bhāvera acintya prabhāva
ye kṛṣṇere karāilā dvi-bhuja-svabhāva
The influence of Rādhārāṇī’s pure ecstasy is so inconceivably great that it forced Kṛṣṇa to come to His original two-armed form.
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The influence of Rādhārāṇī’s pure ecstasy is inconceivably great.
Her pure ecstasy forced Kṛṣṇa to return to His two-armed form.
This two-armed form is Kṛṣṇa’s 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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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’s”
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Write one sentence recalling the effect of Rādhārāṇī’s pure ecstasy on Kṛṣṇa’s form.
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