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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.53
তোমার প্রণামে কি কৈরাছেন অবধান ? কিবা নাহি করেন, কহ বচনপ্রমাণ ॥ ৫৩ ॥
tomāra praṇāme ki kairāchena avadhāna?
kibā nāhi karena, kaha vacana-pramāṇa
“ ‘Did He or did He not pay attention while you offered Him obeisances? Kindly give evidence supporting your words.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The gopīs asked whether Kṛṣṇa had paid attention when the trees offered obeisances.
Their question allowed for either possibility: He might or might not have noticed.
They kindly asked the trees to give evidence supporting their words.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu adopted the same transcendental thoughts as those of the gopīs and was filled with ecstatic emotion. Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited a verse from the Gīta-govinda just suitable to the Lord’s emotions.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “offered”
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 request for evidence express the gopīs’ desire for certain news of Kṛṣṇa?
Reread the inquiry and identify both what the gopīs wanted to know and what support they requested.
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