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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.39
অবশ্য কহিবে, — পাঞাছে কৃষ্ণের দর্শনে ।
এত অনুমানি’ পুছে তুলস্যাদি-গণে ॥ ৩৯ ॥
avaśya kahibe, — pāñāche kṛṣṇera darśane
eta anumāni’ puche tulasy-ādi-gaṇe
“ ‘They will certainly tell us where Kṛṣṇa has gone, since they have seen Him personally.’” Guessing in this way, the gopīs inquired from the plants and creepers, headed by tulasī.
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The gopīs feel certain that the creepers will tell them where Kṛṣṇa has gone.
They suppose that the creepers have seen Him personally.
With this hope, they inquire from the plants and creepers, headed by tulasī.
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 does hope move the gopīs from guessing to asking?
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