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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 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 14.42Antya 14.44

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.43

“শুন, বান্ধব, কৃষ্ণের মাধুরী ।

যার লোভে মোর মন, ছাড়ি’ লোক-বেদধর্ম, যোগী হঞা হইল ভিখারী ।। ৪৩ ।। ধ্রু ।। ॥ ৪৩ ॥

“śuna, bāndhava, kṛṣṇera mādhurī

yāra lobhe mora mana, chāḍi’ loka-veda-dharma,

yogī hañā ha-ila bhikhārī

Translation

“My dear friends,” He said, “please hear of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness. Because of a great desire for that sweetness, My mind has given up all social and Vedic religious principles and taken to the profession of begging, exactly like a mystic yogī.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness draws the mind beyond convention

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asks His dear friends to hear about Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.

  2. 2

    He describes His mind as having given up all social and Vedic religious principles because of its great desire for that sweetness.

  3. 3

    Continuing the metaphor of the mind as a yogī, He says that His mind has taken to begging.

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

Further reading

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 summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. śunaplease hear
  2. bāndhavaMy friends
  3. kṛṣṇera mādhurīthe sweetness of Lord Kṛṣṇa
  4. yārafor which
  5. lobheby the greed
  6. mora manaMy mind
  7. chāḍi’giving up
  8. loka-veda-dharmasocial and Vedic religious principles
  9. yogī hañāhaving become a yogī
  10. ha-ila bhikhārīhas become a beggar
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the image of a begging yogī express the mind’s desire for Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness?

Practice

Spend a quiet minute reflecting on the phrase “a great desire for that sweetness.”

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s sweetness draws the mind beyond conventionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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