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  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 15.96Antya 15.98

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.97

পয়োরাশেস্তীরে স্ফুরদুপবনালীকলনয়া মুহুর্বৃন্দারণ্যস্মরণজনিতপ্রেমবিবশঃ ।

ক্বচিৎ কৃষ্ণাবৃত্তিপ্রচলরসনো ভক্তিরসিকঃ স চৈতন্যঃ কিং মে পুনরপি দৃশোর্যাস্যতি পদম্ ॥ ৯৭ ॥

payo-rāśes tīre sphurad-upavanālī-kalanayā

muhur vṛndāraṇya-smaraṇa-janita-prema-vivaśaḥ

kvacit kṛṣṇāvṛtti-pracala-rasano bhakti-rasikaḥ

sa caitanyaḥ kiṁ me punar api dṛśor yāsyati padam

Translation

“Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the topmost of all devotees. Sometimes, while walking on the beach, He would see a beautiful garden nearby and mistake it for the forest of Vṛndāvana. Thus He would be completely overwhelmed by ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa and begin to chant the holy name and dance. His tongue worked incessantly as He chanted, ‘Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!’ Will He again become visible before the path of my eyes?”

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Ecstatic Love Finds Expression in Chanting

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    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is described as the topmost of all devotees. While walking on the beach, He would sometimes mistake a beautiful garden for the forest of Vṛndāvana.

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    Completely overwhelmed by ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa, He would chant the holy name and dance. His tongue worked incessantly as He chanted, “Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!”

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    The prayer longs to see Him again. The purport identifies it as a quotation from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s first Caitanyāṣṭaka in Stava-mālā.

Key points from the purport
  • This quotation is verse 6 from the first Caitanyāṣṭaka in Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Stava-mālā.

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:

When He saw the garden on the beach by the sea, He again thought that He was in Vṛndāvana, and when He began to think of Kṛṣṇa engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again. On the night of the rāsa dance, the gopīs, bereaved by Kṛṣṇa’s absence, searched for Kṛṣṇa from one forest to another.
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. payaḥ-rāśeḥby the sea
  2. tīreon the beach
  3. sphuratbeautiful
  4. upavana-ālīgarden
  5. kalanayāby seeing
  6. muhuḥcontinuously
  7. vṛndāraṇyathe forest of Vṛndāvana
  8. smaraṇa-janitaby remembering
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Prema · Love of Godhead

    The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “love of krsna”, “ecstatic love”

  • Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together

    Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “chant”, “holy name”

  • 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”

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

What draws your heart to this description of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chanting Kṛṣṇa’s name?

Practice

Spend one quiet minute chanting “Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!” while remembering this description.

Live this todayEcstatic Love Finds Expression in ChantingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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