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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Antya 15.50Antya 15.52

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.51

বাহুং প্রিয়াংস উপধায় গৃহীতপদ্মো রামানুজস্তুলসিকালিকুলৈর্মদান্ধৈঃ ।

অন্বীয়মান ইহ বস্তরবঃ প্রণামং কিংবাভিনন্দতি চরন্ প্রণয়াবলোকৈঃ ॥ ৫১ ॥

bāhuṁ priyāṁsa upadhāya gṛhīta-padmo

rāmānujas tulasikāli-kulair madāndhaiḥ

anvīyamāna iha vas taravaḥ praṇāmaṁ

kiṁ vābhinandati caran praṇayāvalokaiḥ

Translation

Lord Caitanya continued, “ ‘O trees, kindly tell us whether Balarāma’s younger brother, Kṛṣṇa, welcomed your obeisances with loving glances as He passed this way, resting one hand on the shoulder of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, holding a lotus flower in the other, and being followed by a swarm of bumblebees maddened by the fragrance of tulasī flowers.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Seeking News of Kṛṣṇa’s Loving Glances

  1. 1

    Lord Caitanya continued by quoting the gopīs’ inquiry to the trees. The purport identifies this verse as a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

  2. 2

    The gopīs asked whether Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma’s younger brother, had welcomed the trees’ obeisances with loving glances.

  3. 3

    Their inquiry described Him resting one hand on Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s shoulder and holding a lotus in the other. Bumblebees followed Him, maddened by the fragrance of tulasī flowers.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Antya 15.51 quotesSB 10.30.12

This verse is quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.30.12).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. bāhumarm
  2. priyā-aṁseon the shoulder of His beloved
  3. upadhāyaplacing
  4. gṛhītahaving taken
  5. padmaḥa lotus flower
  6. rāma-anujaḥLord Balarāma’s younger brother (Kṛṣṇa)
  7. tulasikābecause of the garland of tulasī flowers
  8. ali-kulaiḥby bumblebees
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Key ideas in this verse

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”, “rādhārāṇī’s”

  • 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’”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which detail in the gopīs’ inquiry most draws your attention to Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Reread the description and spend one quiet minute remembering Kṛṣṇa holding the lotus.

Live this todaySeeking News of Kṛṣṇa’s Loving GlancesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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