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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.50
কৃষ্ণে দেখি’ এই সব করেন নমস্কার ।
কৃষ্ণগমন পুছে তারে করিয়া নির্ধার ॥ ৫০ ॥
kṛṣṇe dekhi’ ei saba karena namaskāra
kṛṣṇa-gamana puche tāre kariyā nirdhāra
The gopīs thought that because all the trees must have seen Kṛṣṇa pass by they were offering respectful obeisances to Him. To be certain, the gopīs inquired from the trees.
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The gopīs thought that all the trees must have seen Kṛṣṇa pass by.
They understood the trees’ bent branches as respectful obeisances to Him.
To be certain, they asked the trees 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:
When He saw the garden on the beach by the sea, He again thought that He was in Vṛndāvana, and when He began to think of Kṛṣṇa engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again. On the night of the rāsa dance, the gopīs, bereaved by Kṛṣṇa’s absence, searched for Kṛṣṇa from one forest to another.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”
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the gopīs’ search for Kṛṣṇa shape their understanding of the bowed trees?
Spend a moment reflecting on the gopīs’ thought that the trees were offering respect to Kṛṣṇa.
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