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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.86
কিম্বা, প্রেমরসময় কৃষ্ণের স্বরূপ ।
তাঁর শক্তি তাঁর সহ হয় একরূপ ॥ ৮৬ ॥
kimvā, prema-rasa-maya kṛṣṇera svarūpa
tāṅra śakti tāṅra saha haya eka-rūpa
Or “kṛṣṇa-mayī” means that She is identical with Lord Kṛṣṇa, for She embodies the mellows of love. The energy of Lord Kṛṣṇa is identical with Him.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa-mayī has two meanings. First, it describes a person who always thinks of Kṛṣṇa within and without, remembering only Him wherever that person goes or whatever that person sees.
Kṛṣṇa’s personality is full of love. His loving potency, Rādhārāṇī, is nondifferent from Him and is therefore called kṛṣṇa-mayī.
She embodies the mellows of love. As Lord Kṛṣṇa’s energy, She is identical with Him.
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 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
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”
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: “mellows”
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can the first meaning of kṛṣṇa-mayī encourage me to remember Kṛṣṇa today?
During one ordinary activity today, pause briefly to remember Kṛṣṇa.
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