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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 14.46Antya 14.48

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.47

দশেন্দ্রিয়ে শিষ্য করি’, ‘মহা-বাউল’ নাম ধরি’, শিষ্য লঞা করিল গমন ।

মোর দেহ স্ব-সদন, বিষয়-ভোগ মহাধন, সব ছাড়ি’ গেলা বৃন্দাবন ॥ ৪৭ ॥

daśendriye śiṣya kari’, ‘mahā-bāula’ nāma dhari’,

śiṣya lañā karila gamana

mora deha sva-sadana, viṣaya-bhoga mahā-dhana,

saba chāḍi’ gelā vṛndāvana

Translation

“The mystic yogī of My mind has assumed the name Mahābāula and made disciples of My ten senses. Thus My mind has gone to Vṛndāvana, leaving aside the home of My body and the great treasure of material enjoyment.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The mind leads the senses toward Vṛndāvana

  1. 1

    The mystic yogī of His mind takes the name Mahābāula and makes His ten senses into disciples.

  2. 2

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu compares His mind to the mystic yogīs known as bāulas, who make at least ten disciples.

  3. 3

    His mind goes to Vṛndāvana, leaving behind the home of His body and the great treasure of material enjoyment.

Key points from the purport
  • Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu compares His mind to one of the mystic yogīs known as bāulas, who make at least ten disciples.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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. daśa-indriyethe ten senses
  2. śiṣya kari’making disciples
  3. mahā-bāulaof a great mendicant
  4. nāma dhari’taking the name
  5. śiṣya lañātaking disciples
  6. karila gamanahas gone
  7. moraMy
  8. dehabody
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the image of the senses as disciples suggest about the mind’s direction?

Practice

Set aside one material diversion briefly and use that time to read this description of the mind going to Vṛndāvana.

Live this todayThe mind leads the senses toward VṛndāvanaThis 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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