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1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 14: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Feelings of Separation from Kṛṣṇa

Antya 14.40 Antya 14.42

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.41

প্রাপ্তপ্রণষ্টাচ্যুতবিত্ত আত্মা যযৌ বিষাদোজ্ঝিত-দেহগেহঃ ।

গৃহীতকাপালিকধর্মকো মে বৃন্দাবনং সেন্দ্রিয়শিষ্যবৃন্দঃ ॥ ৪১ ॥

prāpta-praṇaṣṭācyuta-vitta ātmā

yayau viṣādojjhita-deha-gehaḥ

gṛhīta-kāpālika-dharmako me

vṛndāvanaṁ sendriya-śiṣya-vṛndaḥ

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “At first My mind somehow achieved the treasure of Kṛṣṇa, but it again lost Him. Therefore it gave up My body and home because of lamentation and accepted the religious principles of a kāpālika-yogī. Then My mind went to Vṛndāvana with its disciples, My senses.”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The mind seeks the lost treasure, Kṛṣṇa

1
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes His mind as having gained the treasure of Kṛṣṇa and then lost Him.
2
In lamentation, His mind leaves His body and home, accepts the religious principles of a kāpālika-yogī, and goes to Vṛndāvana.
3
His senses accompany His mind as disciples. The purport makes clear that this description is metaphorical.

How it feels

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

Antya 14: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Feelings of Separation from Kṛṣṇa

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 summary Back to this verse in Antya 14

Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

prāptaachieved
praṇaṣṭalost
acyutaKṛṣṇa
vittaḥthe treasure
ātmāmind
yayauwent
viṣādaby lamentation
ujjhitagiven up

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

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: “lamentation”
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”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does calling Kṛṣṇa a treasure help you understand about this lamentation?

Practice

Reread the verse and identify the mind as the yogī and the senses as his disciples.

Live this todayThe mind seeks the lost treasure, KṛṣṇaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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