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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 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.14

সৌন্দর্যামৃতসিন্ধুভঙ্গললনা-চিত্তাদ্রিসংপ্লাবকঃ কর্ণানন্দি-সনর্মরম্যবচনঃ কোটীন্দুশীতাঙ্গকঃ ।

সৌরভ্যামৃতসংপ্লবাবৃতজগৎ পীযূষরম্যাধরঃ শ্রীগোপেন্দ্রসুতঃ স কর্ষতি বলাৎ পঞ্চেন্দ্রিয়াণ্যালি মে ॥ ১৪ ॥

saundaryāmṛta-sindhu-bhaṅga-lalanā-cittādri-samplāvakaḥ

karṇānandi-sanarma-ramya-vacanaḥ koṭīndu-śītāṅgakaḥ

saurabhyāmṛta-samplavāvṛta-jagat pīyūṣa-ramyādharaḥ

śrī-gopendra-sutaḥ sa karṣati balāt pañcendriyāṇy āli me

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “ ‘Though the hearts of the gopīs are like high-standing hills, they are inundated by the waves of the nectarean ocean of Kṛṣṇa’s beauty. His sweet voice enters their ears and gives them transcendental bliss, the touch of His body is cooler than millions and millions of moons together, and the nectar of His bodily fragrance overfloods the entire world. O My dear friend, that Kṛṣṇa, who is the son of Nanda Mahārāja and whose lips are exactly like nectar, is attracting My five senses by force.’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s Sweetness Attracts All Five Senses

  1. 1

    The waves of Kṛṣṇa’s nectarean beauty inundate the gopīs’ hearts, though those hearts are compared to high-standing hills.

  2. 2

    His sweet voice gives transcendental bliss, His touch is cooler than millions of moons, His bodily fragrance overfloods the world, and His lips are like nectar.

  3. 3

    Kṛṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja, forcibly attracts all five senses. The purport identifies this verse as coming from the Govinda-līlāmṛta by Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja.

Key points from the purport
  • This verse is found in the Govinda-līlāmṛta (8.3), by Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja.

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

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

Further reading

Antya 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

After seeing the upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once more began to feel ecstatic emotions. 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.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. saundaryaHis beauty
  2. amṛta-sindhuof the ocean of nectar
  3. bhaṅgaby the waves
  4. lalanāof women
  5. cittathe hearts
  6. adrihills
  7. samplāvakaḥinundating
  8. karṇathrough the ears
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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: “gopīs”, “nanda”, “gopīs’”

  • Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts

    Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “together”

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

Which description of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness most holds your attention, and why?

Practice

Choose one image from this verse and spend a quiet minute reflecting on its description of Kṛṣṇa.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s Sweetness Attracts All Five SensesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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