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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 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 15.74Antya 15.76

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.75

সুললিত দীর্ঘার্গল, কৃষ্ণের ভুজযুগল, ভুজ নহে, — কৃষ্ণসর্পকায় ।

দুই শৈল-ছিদ্রে পৈশে, নারীর হৃদয়ে দংশে, মরে নারী সে বিষজ্বালায় ॥ ৭৫ ॥

sulalita dīrghārgala, kṛṣṇera bhuja-yugala,

bhuja nahe, — kṛṣṇa-sarpa-kāya

dui śaila-chidre paiśe, nārīra hṛdaye daṁśe,

mare nārī se viṣa-jvālāya

Translation

“The two very beautiful arms of Kṛṣṇa are just like long bolts. They also resemble the bodies of black snakes that enter the space between the two hill-like breasts of women and bite their hearts. The women then die from the burning poison.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s Beautiful Arms Awaken Burning Longing

  1. 1

    Kṛṣṇa’s two beautiful arms are compared to long bolts and the bodies of black snakes.

  2. 2

    The snake imagery describes His arms entering between the women’s breasts and biting their hearts.

  3. 3

    The purport explains that the gopīs become very much agitated by lusty desire, burning from this figurative poisonous bite.

Key points from the purport
  • In other words, the gopīs become very much agitated by lusty desire; they are burning due to the poisonous bite inflicted by the black snakes of Kṛṣṇa’s beautiful arms.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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

Further reading

Antya 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited a verse from the Gīta-govinda just suitable to the Lord’s emotions. Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. su-lalitavery beautiful
  2. dīrgha-argalalong bolts
  3. kṛṣṇeraof Kṛṣṇa
  4. bhuja-yugalatwo arms
  5. bhujaarms
  6. nahenot
  7. kṛṣṇablack
  8. sarpaof snakes
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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”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the purport help you understand the imagery of snakes and burning poison?

Practice

Reread the purport and write one sentence explaining what the poisonous bite represents.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s Beautiful Arms Awaken Burning LongingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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