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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.29
বৃন্দাবন-ভ্রমে তাহাঁ পশিলা ধাঞা ।
প্রেমাবেশে বুলে তাহাঁ কৃষ্ণ অন্বেষিয়া ॥ ২৯ ॥
vṛndāvana-bhrame tāhāṅ paśilā dhāñā
premāveśe bule tāhāṅ kṛṣṇa anveṣiyā
Lord Caitanya mistook that garden for Vṛndāvana and very quickly entered it. Absorbed in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa, He wandered throughout the garden, searching for Him.
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Lord Caitanya mistook the flower garden for Vṛndāvana.
He entered the garden very quickly, absorbed in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.
He wandered throughout the garden, searching for Kṛṣṇa.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which words in this verse convey the intensity of the Lord’s desire to find Kṛṣṇa?
Spend a minute rereading the phrase “searching for Him,” reflecting on Kṛṣṇa as the focus of the Lord’s love.
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