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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
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 15.66 Antya 15.68

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.67

মুরলীর কলধ্বনি, মধুর গর্জন শুনি’, বৃন্দাবনে নাচে ময়ূরচয় ।

অকলঙ্ক পূর্ণকল, লাবণ্য-জ্যোৎস্না ঝলমল, চিত্রচন্দ্রের তাহাতে উদয় ॥ ৬৭ ॥

muralīra kala-dhvani, madhura garjana śuni’,

vṛndāvane nāce mayūra-caya

akalaṅka pūrṇa-kala, lāvaṇya-jyotsnā jhalamala,

citra-candrera tāhāte udaya

Translation

“The luster of Kṛṣṇa’s body is as beautiful as the glow of a spotless full moon that has just risen, and the vibration of His flute sounds exactly like the sweet thundering of a newly formed cloud. When the peacocks in Vṛndāvana hear that vibration, they all begin to dance.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s Flute Makes the Peacocks Dance

1
The luster of Kṛṣṇa’s body is as beautiful as a spotless full moon that has just risen.
2
His flute sounds like the sweet thundering of a newly formed cloud.
3
When the peacocks in Vṛndāvana hear His flute, they all begin to dance.

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

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.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

muralīraof the flute
kala-dhvanithe low vibration
madhurasweet
garjanathundering
śunihearing
vṛndāvanein Vṛndāvana
nācedance
mayūra-cayathe peacocks

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

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: “vṛndāvana”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the peacocks’ dancing deepen your appreciation of the sweetness of Kṛṣṇa’s flute?

Practice

Read the verse aloud, then briefly picture the peacocks of Vṛndāvana dancing at the sound of Kṛṣṇa’s flute.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s Flute Makes the Peacocks DanceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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