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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.107
গোবর্ধনে চড়ি’ কৃষ্ণ বাজাইলা বেণু ।
গোবর্ধনের চৌদিকে চরে সব ধেনু ॥ ১০৭ ॥
govardhane caḍi’ kṛṣṇa bājāilā veṇu
govardhanera caudike care saba dhenu
“I saw Lord Kṛṣṇa climbing Govardhana Hill and playing His flute, surrounded on all sides by grazing cows.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that He saw Lord Kṛṣṇa climbing Govardhana Hill.
Kṛṣṇa was playing His flute as He climbed.
Grazing cows surrounded Him on all sides, completing the scene Mahāprabhu describes.
Intense yearning. Darśana, dreams, and visions of Vraja bring overwhelming separation.
The mood of Antya 14 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:
Once Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu mistook a sand dune known as Caṭaka-parvata for Govardhana Hill. As He ran toward it, He became stunned, and then the eight ecstatic transformations appeared in His body due to great love for Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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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: “govardhana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which detail helps you attend most closely to this description of Kṛṣṇa?
Pause for one minute to recall the three details: Govardhana Hill, Kṛṣṇa’s flute, and the grazing cows.
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