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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 15.24

এত কহি’ গৌরহরি, দুইজনার কণ্ঠ ধরি’, কহে, — ‘শুন, স্বরূপ-রামরায় ।

কাহাঁ করোঁ, কাহাঁ যাঙ, কাহাঁ গেলে কৃষ্ণ পাঙ, দুঁহে মোরে কহ সে উপায়’ ॥ ২৪ ॥

eta kahi’ gaurahari, dui-janāra kaṇṭha dhari’,

kahe, — ‘śuna, svarūpa-rāmarāya

kāhāṅ karoṅ, kāhāṅ yāṅa, kāhāṅ gele kṛṣṇa pāṅa,

duṅhe more kaha se upāya’

Translation

After speaking in this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu caught hold of the necks of Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara. Then the Lord said, “My dear friends, please listen to Me. What shall I do? Where shall I go? Where can I go to get Kṛṣṇa? Please, both of you, tell Me how I can find Him.”

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Appeals for Help Finding Kṛṣṇa

  1. 1

    After describing Kṛṣṇa’s attractions, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu caught hold of the necks of Rāmānanda Rāya and Svarūpa Dāmodara.

  2. 2

    He addressed them as His dear friends and asked them to listen. His questions express urgent longing: what should He do, and where should He go?

  3. 3

    The Lord asked both friends to tell Him how He could find Kṛṣṇa. His appeal brings the preceding descriptions of attraction into a direct plea for help.

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:

Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited a verse from the Gīta-govinda just suitable to the Lord’s emotions. Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on.
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. eta kahi’saying this
  2. gaurahariŚrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  3. dui-janāraof the two persons
  4. kaṇṭha dhari’catching the necks
  5. kahesaid
  6. śunaplease hear
  7. svarūpa-rāma-rāyaSvarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya
  8. kāhāṅ karoṅwhat shall I do
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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 Lord’s appeal to His dear friends reveal about His longing to find Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Read the Lord’s questions aloud slowly, noticing how each one expresses His longing for Kṛṣṇa.

Live this todayThe Lord Appeals for Help Finding KṛṣṇaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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