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  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 14.48Antya 14.50

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.49

কৃষ্ণ-গুণ-রূপ-রস, গন্ধ, শব্দ, পরশ, সে সুধা আস্বাদে গোপীগণ ।

তা-সবার গ্রাস-শেষে, আনি’ পঞ্চেন্দ্রিয় শিষ্যে, সে ভিক্ষায় রাখেন জীবন ॥ ৪৯ ॥

kṛṣṇa-guṇa-rūpa-rasa, gandha, śabda, paraśa,

se sudhā āsvāde gopī-gaṇa

tā-sabāra grāsa-śeṣe, āni’ pañcendriya śiṣye,

se bhikṣāya rākhena jīvana

Translation

“The gopīs of Vrajabhūmi always taste the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s attributes, His beauty, His sweetness, His aroma, the sound of His flute and the touch of His body. My mind’s five disciples, the senses of perception, gather the remnants of that nectar from the gopīs and bring them to the yogī of My mind. The senses maintain their lives by eating those remnants.

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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.

The Senses Receive Nectar From the Gopīs

  1. 1

    The gopīs of Vrajabhūmi always taste the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s attributes, beauty, sweetness, aroma, flute sound and bodily touch.

  2. 2

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes His senses of perception as the five disciples of the yogī of His mind.

  3. 3

    These senses gather remnants of that nectar from the gopīs and bring them to His mind. Those remnants sustain the senses.

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. kṛṣṇaof Lord Kṛṣṇa
  2. guṇa-rūpa-rasaattributes, beauty and sweetness
  3. gandha śabda paraśaaroma, sound and touch
  4. se sudhāthat nectar
  5. āsvādetaste
  6. gopī-gaṇaall the gopīs
  7. tā-sabāraof all of them
  8. grāsa-śeṣeremnants of food
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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: “vrajabhūmi”, “gopīs”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the image of nectar suggest about the gopīs’ experience of Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Read the list of Kṛṣṇa’s qualities slowly, and spend a moment reflecting on one.

Live this todayThe Senses Receive Nectar From the GopīsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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