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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.108
বেণুনাদ শুনি’ আইলা রাধা-ঠাকুরাণী ।
সব সখীগণ-সঙ্গে করিয়া সাজনি ॥ ১০৮ ॥
veṇu-nāda śuni’ āilā rādhā-ṭhākurāṇī
saba sakhī-gaṇa-saṅge kariyā sājani
“Hearing the vibration of Kṛṣṇa’s flute, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and all Her gopī friends came there to meet Him. They were all very nicely dressed.
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Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and all Her gopī friends heard the vibration of Kṛṣṇa’s flute.
On hearing it, they came there to meet Him.
They were all very nicely dressed as they came to Kṛṣṇa.
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.
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”
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: “gopī”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does their response to Kṛṣṇa’s flute help you notice about their desire to meet Him?
Read this verse aloud once, paying attention to the movement from hearing Kṛṣṇa’s flute to coming to meet Him.
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