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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.49
আগে বৃক্ষগণ দেখে পুষ্প ফলভরে ।
শাখা সব পড়িয়াছে পৃথিবী-উপরে ॥ ৪৯ ॥
āge vṛkṣa-gaṇa dekhe puṣpa-phala-bhare
śākhā saba paḍiyāche pṛthivī-upare
The gopīs then came upon many trees so laden with fruits and flowers that their branches were bent down to the ground.
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The gopīs came upon many trees laden with fruits and flowers.
The branches were so heavily laden that they bent down to the ground.
These bowed branches became the occasion for the gopīs to inquire about Kṛṣṇa.
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”
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “branches”
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What details of the trees help you picture what the gopīs saw?
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