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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.12
কৃষ্ণের বিয়োগে রাধার উৎকণ্ঠিত মন ।
বিশাখারে কহে আপন উৎকণ্ঠা-কারণ ॥ ১২ ॥
kṛṣṇera viyoge rādhāra utkaṇṭhita mana
viśākhāre kahe āpana utkaṇṭhā-kāraṇa
When Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was very much agitated due to feeling great separation from Kṛṣṇa, She spoke a verse to Viśākhā explaining the cause of Her great anxiety and restlessness.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī felt great separation from Kṛṣṇa.
This separation made Her very much agitated, anxious and restless.
She spoke a verse to Viśākhā explaining the cause of these feelings.
Absorbed searching. The Lord lives the gopīs’ search for Kṛṣṇa with ecstatic transformations.
The mood of Antya 15 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 saw the garden on the beach by the sea, He again thought that He was in Vṛndāvana, and when He began to think of Kṛṣṇa engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again. On the night of the rāsa dance, the gopīs, bereaved by Kṛṣṇa’s absence, searched for Kṛṣṇa from one forest to another.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Rādhārāṇī’s anxiety reveal about the depth of Her longing for Kṛṣṇa?
Write one sentence describing the cause of Rādhārāṇī’s restlessness, using only this translation.
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