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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.89
এইমত নৃত্য যদি হইল বহুক্ষণ ।
স্বরূপ-গোসাঞি পদ কৈলা সমাপন ॥ ৮৯ ॥
ei-mata nṛtya yadi ha-ila bahu-kṣaṇa
svarūpa-gosāñi pada kailā samāpana
After the Lord had been dancing for a long time, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī stopped singing the verse.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord had been dancing for a long time.
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī then stopped singing the verse.
The next verse explains that Svarūpa Dāmodara saw the Lord’s fatigue and did not resume singing.
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:
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can noticing another’s fatigue help me serve more thoughtfully?
Today, notice whether someone helping you needs a pause, and offer them one.
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