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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.54
কৃষ্ণের বিয়োগে এই সেবক দুঃখিত ।
কিবা উত্তর দিবে? ইহার নাহিক সম্বিৎ ।।” ৫৪ ।। ॥ ৫৪ ॥
kṛṣṇera viyoge ei sevaka duḥkhita
kibā uttara dibe? ihāra nāhika samvit”
“ ‘Separation from Kṛṣṇa has made these servants very unhappy. Having lost consciousness, how can they answer us?’”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The gopīs spoke of the trees as servants of Kṛṣṇa.
They understood these servants to be very unhappy because of separation from Him.
They concluded that the trees had lost consciousness and therefore could not answer.
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”
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: “servants”
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.
What does the gopīs’ explanation of the trees’ silence reveal about the importance of Kṛṣṇa’s presence to them?
Reflect for one quiet minute on the gopīs’ description of the trees as servants suffering separation from Kṛṣṇa.
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