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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 5.214
তাসামাবিরভূচ্ছৌরিঃ স্ময়মানমুখাম্বুজঃ ।
পীতাম্বরধরঃ স্রগ্বী সাক্ষান্মন্মথমন্মথঃ ॥ ২১৪ ॥
tāsām āvirabhūc chauriḥ
smayamāna-mukhāmbujaḥ
pītāmbara-dharaḥ sragvī
sākṣān manmatha-manmathaḥ
“Wearing yellow garments and decorated with a flower garland, Lord Kṛṣṇa, appearing among the gopīs with His smiling lotus face, looked directly like the charmer of the heart of Cupid.”
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Lord Kṛṣṇa wears yellow garments and is decorated with a flower garland.
He appears among the gopīs with His smiling lotus face.
He looks directly like the charmer of Cupid’s heart. The purport identifies this description as a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
The purport of CC Ādi 5.214 quotesSB 10.32.2
This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.32.2).
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
Shelter and wonder. The glory of Nityānanda reveals the intimate support behind the descent.
The mood of Ādi 5 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:
In the Śvetadvīpa within every universe is a Śeṣa form of Godhead who serves Viṣṇu by assuming the form of His umbrella, slippers, couch, pillows, garments, residence, sacred thread, throne and so on. Lord Baladeva in Kṛṣṇaloka is Nityānanda Prabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
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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.
Which detail of Kṛṣṇa’s appearance draws your attention most?
Read the description once, then recall Kṛṣṇa’s yellow garments, flower garland and smiling lotus face.
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