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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.20
দেখি’ প্রভু সেই রসে আবিষ্ট হৈলা ।
‘বৃন্দাবনে কৃষ্ণ পাইনু’ — এই জ্ঞান কৈলা ॥ ২০ ॥
dekhi’ prabhu sei rase āviṣṭa hailā
‘vṛndāvane kṛṣṇa pāinu’ — ei jñāna kailā
Seeing this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was overwhelmed with the transcendental mellow of the rāsa dance, and He thought, “Now I am with Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana.”
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Seeing the dance, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was overwhelmed with its transcendental mellow.
His experience was not merely watching the scene; He thought He was with Kṛṣṇa.
He thought, “Now I am with Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana.”
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:
When He could no longer see Kṛṣṇa, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu compared Himself to a yogī and described how that yogī was seeing Vṛndāvana. Sometimes all the transcendental ecstatic symptoms were manifest in Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellow”, “rāsa”
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: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do the Lord’s words reveal about how deeply He experienced the dream?
Read the Lord’s words aloud once, then pause to reflect on His absorption in Kṛṣṇa.
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