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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.30
আমিহ না জানি তাহা, না জানে গোপীগণ ।
দুঁহার রূপগুণে দুঁহার নিত্য হরে মন ॥ ৩০ ॥
āmiha nā jāni tāhā, nā jāne gopī-gaṇa
duṅhāra rūpa-guṇe duṅhāra nitya hare mana
“Neither the gopīs nor I shall notice this, for our minds will always be entranced by one another’s beauty and qualities.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs remain entranced by one another’s beauty and qualities.
Nārāyaṇa predominates over the Vaikuṇṭha planets, where His devotees have features like His. Their exchange of devotion rests on reverence.
Above Vaikuṇṭha is Goloka, or Kṛṣṇaloka, where Kṛṣṇa fully manifests His pleasure potency in free loving affairs. He desires to reveal these exchanges to devotees in the material world, who know almost nothing about them.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
Lord Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of transcendental loving transactions with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. The subject of those loving transactions is the Lord Himself, and Rādhārāṇī is the object.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.
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.
What distinction does this passage show between devotion in reverence and free loving exchanges?
Write one sentence describing the loving exchanges Kṛṣṇa desires to reveal.
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