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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.48
কৃষ্ণ ইহাঁ ছাড়ি’ গেলা, ইহোঁ — বিরহিণী ।
কিবা উত্তর দিবে এই — না শুনে কাহিনী ।।” ৪৮ ।। ॥ ৪৮ ॥
kṛṣṇa ihāṅ chāḍi’ gelā, ihoṅ — virahiṇī
kibā uttara dibe ei — nā śune kāhinī”
“ ‘Lord Kṛṣṇa has left this place, and therefore the deer are feeling separation. They do not hear our words; therefore how can they reply?’”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The gopīs conclude that Lord Kṛṣṇa has left this place.
They understand the deer to be feeling separation from Him.
They explain that the deer do not hear their words and therefore cannot reply. They see the deer’s silence in relation to Kṛṣṇa’s absence.
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.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “separation”, “absence”
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.
How does the gopīs’ explanation of the deer’s silence express their own absorption in Kṛṣṇa?
Pause over the words “feeling separation” and write one sentence about how they explain the deer’s silence.
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