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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 4.209
কামগন্ধহীন স্বাভাবিক গোপী–প্রেম ।
নির্মল, উজ্জ্বল, শুদ্ধ যেন দগ্ধ হেম ॥ ২০৯ ॥
kāma-gandha-hīna svābhāvika gopī-prema
nirmala, ujjvala, śuddha yena dagdha hema
The natural love of the gopīs is devoid of any trace of lust. It is faultless, bright and pure, like molten gold.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The natural love of the gopīs contains no trace of lust.
Their love is faultless, bright and pure.
The translation compares this pure love to molten gold.
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:
This chapter also specifically describes the difference between lust and love. The transactions of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā are completely different from material lust.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love”, “pure love”
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the image of molten gold help me reflect on the purity of the gopīs’ love?
Read the translation slowly, pausing over the words “devoid of any trace of lust.”
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