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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.24
সঙ্কেত-বেণু-নাদে রাধা আনি’ কুঞ্জঘরে ।
কুঞ্জেরে চলিলা কৃষ্ণ ক্রীড়া করিবারে ॥ ২৪ ॥
saṅketa-veṇu-nāde rādhā āni’ kuñja-ghare
kuñjere calilā kṛṣṇa krīḍā karibāre
“He brought Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī to a bower by signaling with His flute. Then He entered within that bower to perform pastimes with Her.
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Kṛṣṇa signaled to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī with His flute.
By that signal, He brought Her to a bower.
He then entered the bower to perform pastimes with Her. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued describing what He had witnessed.
Inconceivable ecstatic absorption. The Lord’s overwhelming love manifests extraordinary bodily changes.
The mood of Antya 17 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the seventeenth chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Absorbed in transcendental ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went out one night without opening the doors to His room. After crossing over three walls, He fell down among some cows belonging to the district of Tailaṅga. There He remained unconscious, assuming the aspect of a tortoise.Back to this verse in Antya 17
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Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhārāṇī”
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How does this verse deepen your attention to the flute’s role in the Lord’s account?
Reread the two verses about the flute, noting how its sound leads to the events described.
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