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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.56
কোটিমন্মথমোহন মুরলীবদন ।
অপার সৌন্দর্যে হরে জগন্নেত্র-মন ॥ ৫৬ ॥
koṭi-manmatha-mohana muralī-vadana
apāra saundarye hare jagan-netra-mana
Standing there with His flute to His lips, Kṛṣṇa, who enchants millions upon millions of Cupids, attracted the eyes and minds of all the world with His unlimited beauty.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa stood with His flute to His lips.
He enchants millions upon millions of Cupids.
His unlimited beauty attracted the eyes and minds of all the world.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What helps you reflect on Kṛṣṇa’s beauty as attracting both the eyes and the mind?
Spend one quiet minute remembering Kṛṣṇa standing with His flute to His lips.
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