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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.36
কৃষ্ণ তোমার ইহাঁ আইলা, পাইলা দরশন ? কৃষ্ণের উদ্দেশ কহি’ রাখহ জীবন ॥ ৩৬ ॥
kṛṣṇa tomāra ihāṅ āilā, pāilā daraśana?
kṛṣṇera uddeśa kahi’ rākhaha jīvana
“ ‘Have you seen Kṛṣṇa coming this way? Kindly tell us which way He has gone and save our lives.’”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The seekers ask whether the trees have seen Kṛṣṇa coming their way.
They ask for a specific kindness: to be told which way He has gone.
The plea “save our lives” expresses how urgently they long to find Him.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this urgent plea reveal about the seekers’ love for Kṛṣṇa?
Spend a quiet minute reflecting on the words “Kindly tell us which way He has gone.”
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