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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.37
‘পাইলুঁ বৃন্দাবননাথ, পুনঃ হারাইলুঁ ।
কে মোর নিলেক কৃষ্ণ? কাহাঁ মুই আইনু’ ? ৩৭ ।। ॥ ৩৭ ॥
‘pāiluṅ vṛndāvana-nātha, punaḥ hārāiluṅ
ke mora nileka kṛṣṇa? kāhāṅ mui āinu’?
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “I found Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of Vṛndāvana, but I have lost Him again. Who has taken My Kṛṣṇa? Where have I come?”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu expressed the feelings of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. He felt that He had found Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of Vṛndāvana, and then lost Him again.
First He felt taken to Vṛndāvana, where He saw Kṛṣṇa’s rāsa dance with the gopīs; then He was brought to Kurukṣetra to see Lord Jagannātha, Subhadrā and Lord Balarāma. He experienced divyonmāda, transcendental madness in separation from Kṛṣṇa.
At Kurukṣetra, Kṛṣṇa displays His opulence, whereas in Vṛndāvana He is in His original position and never goes even a step away. Therefore Kurukṣetra is less important to the gopīs than Vṛndāvana.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
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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”, “gopīs”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “separation”, “madness”
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”
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Why is Vṛndāvana more important to the gopīs than Kurukṣetra?
Write down the purport’s distinction between Kṛṣṇa at Kurukṣetra and Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana.
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