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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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 17: The Bodily Transformations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Antya 17.30Antya 17.32

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.31

কাস্ত্র্যঙ্গ তে কলপদামৃতবেণুগীত- সম্মোহিতার্যচরিতান্ন চলেত্ ত্রিলোক্যাম্ ।

ত্রৈলোক্য-সৌভগমিদঞ্চ নিরীক্ষ্য রূপং যদ্গোদ্বিজদ্রুমমৃগাঃ পুলকান্যবিভ্রন্ ॥ ৩১ ॥

kā stry aṅga te kala-padāmṛta-veṇu-gīta-

sammohitārya-caritān na calet tri-lokyām

trailokya-saubhagam idaṁ ca nirīkṣya rūpaṁ

yad go-dvija-druma-mṛgāḥ pulakāny abibhran

Translation

“[The gopīs said:] ‘My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, where is that woman within the three worlds who would not be captivated by the rhythms of the sweet songs coming from Your wonderful flute? Who would not fall down from the path of chastity in this way? Your beauty is the most sublime within the three worlds. Upon seeing Your beauty, even cows, birds, animals and trees in the forest are stunned in jubilation.”’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s flute and beauty captivate all

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    The gopīs ask what woman within the three worlds would not be captivated by the sweet songs of Kṛṣṇa’s wonderful flute.

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    They describe this attraction as drawing women away from the path of chastity, and praise Kṛṣṇa’s beauty as the most sublime within the three worlds.

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    Upon seeing His beauty, even cows, birds, animals and forest trees are stunned in jubilation.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 17: The Bodily Transformations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. kāwhat
  2. strīwoman
  3. aṅgaO Kṛṣṇa
  4. teof You
  5. kala-padaby the rhythms
  6. amṛta-veṇu-gītaof the sweet songs of the flute
  7. sammohitābeing captivated
  8. ārya-caritātfrom the path of chastity according to Vedic civilization
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Key ideas in this verse

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

    In this verse: “gopīs”

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 strikes you about the range of beings captivated by Kṛṣṇa’s beauty?

Practice

Read the verse once with attention to the flute, then again with attention to Kṛṣṇa’s beauty.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s flute and beauty captivate allThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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