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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.111
কেনে বা আনিলা মোরে বৃথা দুঃখ দিতে ।
পাঞা কৃষ্ণের লীলা, না পাইনু দেখিতে !” ১১১ ।। ॥ ১১১ ॥
kene vā ānilā more vṛthā duḥkha dite
pāñā kṛṣṇera līlā, nā pāinu dekhite”
“Why have you brought Me here, causing Me unnecessary pain? I had a chance to see Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes, but I could not see them.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asks why the others have brought Him there.
He describes their action as causing Him unnecessary pain.
His sorrow is that He had a chance to see Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes but could no longer see them.
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:
The devotees gradually brought Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu back to His senses by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, and then they took Him back to His residence. Once Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu mistook a sand dune known as Caṭaka-parvata for Govardhana Hill.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Mahāprabhu’s sorrow reveal about how precious seeing Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes is to Him?
Spend a quiet minute rereading His words about the lost chance to see Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes.
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