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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.31
ধর্ম ছাড়ি’ রাগে দুহেঁ করয়ে মিলন ।
কভু মিলে, কভু না মিলে,—দৈবের ঘটন ॥ ৩১ ॥
dharma chāḍi’ rāge duṅhe karaye milana
kabhu mile, kabhu nā mile, — daivera ghaṭana
“Pure attachment will unite us even at the expense of moral and religious duties [dharma]. Destiny will sometimes bring us together and sometimes separate us.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Pure attachment unites Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs even at the expense of moral and religious duties. Destiny sometimes brings them together and sometimes separates them.
Hearing Kṛṣṇa’s flute, the gopīs left to meet Him in the dead of night. Its sweetness made them forget their relationships with their kinsmen.
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī describes Govinda standing by the Yamunā with His flute in the moonlight. His warning to those seeking material enjoyment points to Govinda’s power to draw their hearts away from it.
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”, “yamunā”
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “together”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “relationships”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the gopīs’ response to the flute reveal about their attachment to Kṛṣṇa?
Spend a quiet minute reflecting on the sweetness of Govinda’s flute as described here.
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