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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.139
‘কহ রাম-রায়, কিছু শুনিতে হয় মন’ ।
ভাব জানি’ পড়ে রায় গোপীর বচন ॥ ১৩৯ ॥
‘kaha rāma-rāya, kichu śunite haya mana’
bhāva jāni’ paḍe rāya gopīra vacana
Again Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said to Rāmānanda Rāya, “Please say something. I want to hear.” Understanding the situation, Rāmānanda Rāya recited the following words of the gopīs.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again asked Rāmānanda Rāya to speak, saying, “I want to hear.”
Rāmānanda Rāya understood the situation and responded by reciting the words of the gopīs.
The words he chose describe the gopīs’ wonder at the flute’s good fortune in tasting the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips.
Sweetness amidst longing. Jagannātha’s prasādam awakens intense awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
The mood of Antya 16 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:
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ate the remnants of food known as vallabha-bhoga, He described the glories of such remnants of the Lord’s food and then fed all the devotees the prasādam. Thus they all tasted adharāmṛta, the nectar from the lips of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
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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
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