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How to study this verse, in six steps

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

Antya 15.15 Antya 15.17

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.16

সখি হে, শুন মোর দুঃখের কারণ ।

মোর পঞ্চেন্দ্রিয়গণ, মহা-লম্পট দস্যুগণ, সবে কহে, — হর’ পরধন ।। ১৬ ।। ধ্রু ।। ॥ ১৬ ॥

sakhi he, śuna mora duḥkhera kāraṇa

mora pañcendriya-gaṇa, mahā-lampaṭa dasyu-gaṇa,

sabe kahe, — hara’ para-dhana

Translation

“O My dear friend, please hear the cause of My misery. My five senses are actually extravagant rogues. They know very well that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but they still want to plunder Kṛṣṇa’s property.

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

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Senses Long to Plunder Kṛṣṇa’s Sweetness

1
The Lord asks His dear friend to hear the cause of His misery.
2
He calls His five senses “extravagant rogues,” describing their forceful longing for Kṛṣṇa.
3
The senses know very well that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, yet they still want to plunder His property.

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

Antya 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

sakhiMy dear friend
heO
śunaplease hear
moraMy
duḥkhera kāraṇathe cause of unhappiness
moraMy
pañca-indriya-gaṇafive senses of perception
mahāvery

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

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: “longing”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the word “rogues” convey about the force of the senses’ attraction to Kṛṣṇa here?

Practice

Reread this verse alongside the preceding one, and note how the sweetness described there explains the senses’ longing here.

Live this todayThe Senses Long to Plunder Kṛṣṇa’s SweetnessThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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