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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.46
রাধা-প্রিয়সখী আমরা, নহি বহিরঙ্গ ।
দূর হৈতে জানি তার যৈছে অঙ্গ-গন্ধ ॥ ৪৬ ॥
rādhā-priya-sakhī āmarā, nahi bahiraṅga
dūra haite jāni tāra yaiche aṅga-gandha
“ ‘We are not outsiders. Being very dear friends of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, we can perceive the bodily fragrance of Kṛṣṇa from a distance.
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The gopīs explain that they are not outsiders.
They identify themselves as very dear friends of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
They connect this close friendship with their ability to perceive Kṛṣṇa’s bodily fragrance from a distance.
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.
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhārāṇī”
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.
Why do the gopīs mention their friendship with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī?
Write a short sentence connecting the gopīs’ friendship with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and their recognition of Kṛṣṇa’s fragrance.
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