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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.40
“তুলসি, মালতি, যূথি, মাধবি, মল্লিকে ।
তোমার প্রিয় কৃষ্ণ আইলা তোমার অন্তিকে ? ৪০ ।। ॥ ৪০ ॥
“tulasi, mālati, yūthi, mādhavi, mallike
tomāra priya kṛṣṇa āilā tomāra antike?
“ ‘O tulasī! O mālatī! O yūthī, mādhavī and mallikā! Kṛṣṇa is very dear to you; therefore He must have come near you.
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The gopīs address tulasī, mālatī, yūthī, mādhavī and mallikā.
They recognize that Kṛṣṇa is very dear to these plants and creepers.
Because of that affection, they conclude that Kṛṣṇa must have come near 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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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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the gopīs’ appeal reveal about the connection they see between love and nearness to Kṛṣṇa?
Pause over the words “Kṛṣṇa is very dear to you” and reflect on their affectionate meaning.
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