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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.37
উত্তর না পাঞা পুনঃ করে অনুমান ।
এই সব — পুরুষ-জাতি, কৃষ্ণের সখার সমান ॥ ৩৭ ॥
uttara nā pāñā punaḥ kare anumāna
ei saba — puruṣa-jāti, kṛṣṇera sakhāra samāna
When the trees did not reply, the gopīs guessed, “ ‘Since all of these trees belong to the male class, all of them must be friends of Kṛṣṇa.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The trees do not reply to the gopīs’ questions.
The gopīs guess that the trees, belonging to the male class, must be friends of Kṛṣṇa.
Their explanation of the silence remains centered on Kṛṣṇa and His friendships.
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:
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”, “gopīs’”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the gopīs’ response to silence show about their absorption in Kṛṣṇa?
Reread the verse and notice that the explanation is presented as the gopīs’ guess.
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