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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 4.147
কৃষ্ণমাধুর্যের এক স্বাভাবিক বল ।
কৃষ্ণআদি নরনারী করয়ে চঞ্চল ॥ ১৪৭ ॥
kṛṣṇa-mādhuryera eka svābhāvika bala
kṛṣṇa-ādi nara-nārī karaye cañcala
The beauty of Kṛṣṇa has one natural strength: it thrills the hearts of all men and women, beginning with Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa’s beauty has a natural strength of its own.
That beauty thrills the hearts of all men and women.
Even Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself is thrilled by His beauty.
Profound longing. Kṛṣṇa desires to taste Rādhā’s love, His own sweetness as She sees it, and Her joy.
The mood of Ādi 4 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:
Therefore, to know the transcendental pleasure of loving Kṛṣṇa, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself appeared as Lord Caitanya, accepting the emotions and bodily luster of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Lord Caitanya appeared in order to fulfill these confidential desires, and also to preach the special significance of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare and to answer the call of Advaita Prabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does including Kṛṣṇa Himself deepen my understanding of His beauty’s power?
Read the translation once aloud and reflect for a moment on the natural attraction of Kṛṣṇa’s beauty.
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