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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 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 4.82Ādi 4.84

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.83

দেবী কৃষ্ণময়ী প্রোক্তা রাধিকা পরদেবতা ।

সর্বলক্ষ্মীময়ী সর্বকান্তিঃ সম্মোহিনী পরা ॥ ৮৩ ॥

devī kṛṣṇa-mayī proktā

rādhikā para-devatā

sarva-lakṣmī-mayī sarva-

kāntiḥ sammohinī parā

Translation

“The transcendental goddess Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the direct counterpart of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead. She is the primeval internal potency of the Lord.”

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Rādhārāṇī Attracts the All-Attractive Lord

  1. 1

    Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the transcendental goddess and the direct counterpart of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

  2. 2

    She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead.

  3. 3

    She is the Lord’s primeval internal potency. The purport identifies this text as coming from the Bṛhad-gautamīya-tantra.

Connected verses· 1

Quoted in the purport ofSB 10.32.8

(This translation is Śrīla Prabhupāda’s English rendering of Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi 4.83.)

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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

Further reading

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

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

Lord Kṛṣṇa is all sweetness. Rādhārāṇī’s attraction for Kṛṣṇa is sublime, and to experience that attraction and understand the transcendental sweetness of Himself, He accepted the mentality of Rādhārāṇī.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. devīwho shines brilliantly
  2. kṛṣṇa-mayīnondifferent from Lord Kṛṣṇa
  3. proktācalled
  4. rādhikāŚrīmatī Rādhārāṇī
  5. para-devatāmost worshipable
  6. sarva-lakṣmī-mayīpresiding over all the goddesses of fortune
  7. sarva-kāntiḥin whom all splendor exists
  8. sammohinīwhose character completely bewilders Lord Kṛṣṇa
  9. parāthe superior energy
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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 does Her ability to attract the all-attractive Lord help me appreciate about Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī?

Practice

Write down one description of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī from this verse and read it attentively.

Live this todayRādhārāṇī Attracts the All-Attractive LordThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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