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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.80
চঞ্চল-স্বভাব কৃষ্ণের, না রয় একস্থানে ।
দেখা দিয়া মন হরি’ করে অন্তর্ধানে ॥ ৮০ ॥
cañcala-svabhāva kṛṣṇera, nā raya eka-sthāne
dekhā diyā mana hari’ kare antardhāne
“By nature, Kṛṣṇa is very restless; He does not stay in one place. He meets with someone, enchants his mind and then disappears.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes Kṛṣṇa as restless by nature.
Kṛṣṇa does not stay in one place; He meets someone and enchants that person’s mind.
He then disappears, explaining the lament over having Kṛṣṇa and losing Him again.
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:
Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on. The Lord experienced all eight kinds of ecstatic transformations, and He relished them very much.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “lament”
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Why does Kṛṣṇa’s enchanting presence make His disappearance so painful in this passage?
Read this verse together with the preceding one, noticing the sequence of meeting, enchantment and loss.
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