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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 15.29 Antya 15.31

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.30

রাসে রাধা লঞা কৃষ্ণ অন্তর্ধান কৈলা ।

পাছে সখীগণ যৈছে চাহি’ বেড়াইলা ॥ ৩০ ॥

rāse rādhā lañā kṛṣṇa antardhāna kailā

pāche sakhī-gaṇa yaiche cāhi’ beḍāilā

Translation

After Kṛṣṇa disappeared with Rādhārāṇī during the rāsa dance, the gopīs wandered in the forest looking for Him. In the same way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wandered in that garden by the sea.

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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 Lord Searches as the Gopīs Did

1
During the rāsa dance, Kṛṣṇa disappeared with Rādhārāṇī.
2
The gopīs then wandered in the forest looking for Him.
3
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wandered in the garden by the sea in the same way.

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:

On the night of the rāsa dance, the gopīs, bereaved by Kṛṣṇa’s absence, searched for Kṛṣṇa from one forest to another. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu adopted the same transcendental thoughts as those of the gopīs and was filled with ecstatic emotion.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

rāsein the rāsa dance
rādhāŚrīmatī Rādhārāṇī
lañātaking
kṛṣṇaLord Kṛṣṇa
antardhāna kailādisappeared
pācheafterward
sakhī-gaṇaall the gopīs
yaicheas
cāhi’looking for
beḍāilāwandered

Key ideas in this verse

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”
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”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rāsa”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What connection does this verse make between the gopīs’ search and the Lord’s wandering?

Practice

Write one sentence describing the similarity between the two searches.

Live this todayThe Lord Searches as the Gopīs DidThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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