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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.61
পুনঃ কেনে না দেখিয়ে মুরলী-বদন! তাঁহার দর্শন-লোভে ভ্রময় নয়ন ।।” ৬১ ।। ॥ ৬১ ॥
punaḥ kene nā dekhiye muralī-vadana!
tāṅhāra darśana-lobhe bhramaya nayana”
“Why can’t I again see Kṛṣṇa holding His flute to His lips? My eyes are wandering in hopes of seeing Him once more.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu longed to see Kṛṣṇa again.
He specifically remembered Kṛṣṇa holding His flute to His lips.
His eyes wandered in the hope of seeing Kṛṣṇa once more.
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:
After seeing the upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once more began to feel ecstatic emotions. 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.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.
How does the detail of Kṛṣṇa’s flute make the Lord’s longing vivid for you?
Spend a quiet moment remembering the image described here: Kṛṣṇa holding His flute to His lips.
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