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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.38
এ কেনে কহিবে কৃষ্ণের উদ্দেশ আমায় ? এ — স্ত্রীজাতি লতা, আমার সখীপ্রায় ॥ ৩৮ ॥
e kene kahibe kṛṣṇera uddeśa āmāya?
e — strī-jāti latā, āmāra sakhī-prāya
“ ‘Why should the trees tell us where Kṛṣṇa has gone? Let us rather inquire from the creepers; they are female and are therefore like friends to us.
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The gopīs question why the trees would tell them where Kṛṣṇa has gone.
They decide to inquire from the creepers instead.
They regard the creepers as female and therefore like friends who may help them.
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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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”
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How do the gopīs keep their search for Kṛṣṇa going when the trees give no answer?
Write one sentence about how the gopīs continue seeking Kṛṣṇa despite receiving no reply.
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