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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.35
প্রাপ্তরত্ন হারাঞা ঐছে ব্যগ্র হইলা ।
বিষণ্ণ হঞা প্রভু নিজ-বাসা আইলা ॥ ৩৫ ॥
prāpta-ratna hārāñā aiche vyagra ha-ilā
viṣaṇṇa hañā prabhu nija-vāsā āilā
Lord Caitanya grew very much agitated, like a person who has just lost a recently acquired jewel. Then He became very morose and returned home.
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Lord Caitanya became very much agitated.
His distress is compared to that of someone who has just lost a recently acquired jewel.
He became very morose and returned home, feeling the loss of Kṛṣṇa’s presence.
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:
As soon as He perceived this woman, however, His external consciousness immediately returned, and He saw Jagannātha, Baladeva and Subhadrā. Caitanya Mahāprabhu also saw Kṛṣṇa in a dream, and He was overwhelmed with ecstatic love.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.
How does the image of a lost jewel help you understand the Lord’s distress?
Write one sentence explaining what the jewel comparison conveys about the preciousness of meeting Kṛṣṇa.
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