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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 4: The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Ādi 4.241 Ādi 4.244

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Ādi 4.242-243

কোটিকাম জিনি’ রূপ যদ্যপি আমার ।

অসমোর্ধ্বমাধুর্য—সাম্য নাহি যার ॥ ২৪২ ॥

মোর রূপে আপ্যায়িত হয় ত্রিভুবন ।

রাধার দর্শনে মোর জুড়ায় নয়ন ॥ ২৪৩ ॥

koṭi-kāma jini’ rūpa yadyapi āmāra

asamordhva-mādhurya — sāmya nāhi yāra

Translation

“Although My beauty defeats the beauty of ten million Cupids, although it is unequaled and unsurpassed, and although it gives pleasure to the three worlds, seeing Rādhārāṇī gives pleasure to My eyes.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Seeing Rādhārāṇī Pleases Kṛṣṇa’s Eyes

1
Kṛṣṇa’s beauty defeats the beauty of ten million Cupids.
2
His beauty is unequaled and unsurpassed, and it gives pleasure to the three worlds.
3
Yet seeing Rādhārāṇī gives pleasure to His eyes.

How it feels

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

Ādi 4: The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

These revelations have been confirmed by the statements of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī in his various prayers and poems. This chapter also specifically describes the difference between lust and love.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

koṭi-kāmaten million Cupids
jini’conquering
rūpabeauty
yadyapialthough
āmāraMine
asama-ūrdhvaunequaled and unsurpassed
mādhuryasweetness
sāmyaequality

Key ideas in this verse

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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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What strikes you about Kṛṣṇa finding pleasure in seeing Rādhārāṇī?

Practice

Pause over the final words of the translation and reflect on whose sight delights Kṛṣṇa’s eyes.

Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

Quoted in 4 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Quoted in 4 lectures

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Live this todaySeeing Rādhārāṇī Pleases Kṛṣṇa’s EyesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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