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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 4.253
অনুকূলবাতে যদি পায় মোর গন্ধ ।
উড়িয়া পড়িতে চাহে, প্রেমে হয় অন্ধ ॥ ২৫৩ ॥
anukūla-vāte yadi pāya mora gandha
uḍiyā paḍite cāhe, preme haya andha
“When a favorable breeze carries to Her the fragrance of My body, She is blinded by love and tries to fly into that breeze.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
A favorable breeze carries the fragrance of His body to Her.
Receiving that fragrance, She is blinded by love.
She tries to fly into the breeze that carries His fragrance.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
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”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “favorable”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Her response to the fragrance show about the intensity of Her love?
Read the verse slowly, noticing the movement from fragrance to love to Her effort to enter the breeze.
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