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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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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Antya-līlā · Chapter 1: Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Second Meeting with the Lord
Antya 1.143Antya 1.145

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 1.144

ধরিঅ পরিচ্ছন্দগুণং সুন্দর মহ মন্দিরে তুমং বসসি ।

তহ তহ রুন্ধসি বলিঅং জহ জহ চইদা পলাএম্হি ? ১৪৪ ।। ॥ ১৪৪ ॥

dhari-a paḍicchanda-guṇaṁ sundara maha mandire tumaṁ vasasi

taha taha rundhasi bali-aṁ jaha jaha ca-idā palāemhi

Translation

“ ‘O dearly beautiful one, the artistic loveliness of Your picture is now impressed within My mind. Since You are now living within My mind, wherever I wish to run because I am agitated by impressions of You, I find that You, O My friend, are blocking My way.”’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Beloved's Picture Fills the Mind

  1. 1

    The artistic loveliness of the beloved's picture has become impressed within the speaker's mind.

  2. 2

    The beloved is described as living within that mind. Wherever the agitated speaker wishes to run, the beloved seems to block the way.

  3. 3

    The purport explains that this verse is written in Prakrit, not Sanskrit.

Key points from the purport
  • This verse (Vidagdha-mādhava 2.33) is written in the Prakrit language, not in Sanskrit.
  • When transformed into Sanskrit, it reads as follows:

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Recognition and encouragement. Rūpa’s devotional insight receives the Lord’s approval; even a dog receives mercy.

The mood of Antya 1 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 1: Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Second Meeting with the Lord

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

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī composed an important verse beginning with the words priyaḥ so ’yam, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relished it very much. One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Rāmānanda Rāya, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and others went to the place of Haridāsa Ṭhākura and heard some of the verses Rūpa Gosvāmī had composed for his books Lalita-mādhava and Vidagdha-mādhava.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 1
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. dhari-acapturing
  2. paḍicchanda-guṇamthe quality of an artistic picture
  3. sundaraO most beautiful one
  4. mahaMy
  5. mandirewithin the heart
  6. tumamYou
  7. vasasireside
  8. taha tahathat much
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Key ideas in this 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: “loveliness”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the image of the beloved blocking every path convey complete absorption?

Practice

Write one sentence describing how the picture continues to affect the speaker's mind.

Live this todayThe Beloved's Picture Fills the MindThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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