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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 15.70 Antya 15.72

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.71

কৃষ্ণ জিনি’ পদ্ম-চান্দ, পাতিয়াছে মুখ ফান্দ, তাতে অধর-মধুস্মিত চার ।

ব্রজনারী আসি’ আসি’, ফান্দে পড়ি’ হয় দাসী, ছাড়ি’ লাজ-পতি-ঘর-দ্বার ॥ ৭১ ॥

kṛṣṇa jini’ padma-cānda, pātiyāche mukha phānda,

tāte adhara-madhu-smita cāra

vraja-nārī āsi’ āsi’, phānde paḍi’ haya dāsī,

chāḍi’ lāja-pati-ghara-dvāra

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “After conquering the moon and the lotus flower, Kṛṣṇa wished to capture the doelike gopīs. Thus He spread the noose of His beautiful face, and within that noose He placed the bait of His sweet smile to misguide the gopīs. The gopīs fell prey to that trap and became Kṛṣṇa’s maidservants, giving up their homes, families, husbands and prestige.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s Sweet Smile Captures the Gopīs

1
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes Kṛṣṇa’s beauty as conquering the moon and the lotus flower.
2
Kṛṣṇa’s beautiful face becomes a noose, with His sweet smile as bait to capture the doelike gopīs.
3
Caught by that attraction, the gopīs become Kṛṣṇa’s maidservants, giving up their homes, families, husbands and prestige.

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:

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.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

kṛṣṇaLord Kṛṣṇa
jini’conquering
padma-cāndathe lotus flower and the moon
pātiyāchehas spread
mukhathe face
phāndanoose
tātein that
adharalips

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: “gopīs”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the image of Kṛṣṇa’s smile as bait convey about the gopīs’ attraction to Him?

Practice

Pause over the phrase “His sweet smile,” then reread how the gopīs respond by becoming His maidservants.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s Sweet Smile Captures the GopīsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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