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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 17.32Antya 17.34

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.33

হৈল গোপী-ভাবাবেশ, কৈল রাসে পরবেশ, কৃষ্ণের শুনি’ উপেক্ষা-বচন ।

কৃষ্ণের মুখ-হাস্য-বাণী, ত্যাগে তাহা সত্য মানি’, রোষে কৃষ্ণে দেন ওলাহন ॥ ৩৩ ॥

haila gopī-bhāvāveśa, kaila rāse paraveśa,

kṛṣṇera śuni’ upekṣā-vacana

kṛṣṇera mukha-hāsya-vāṇī, tyāge tāhā satya māni’,

roṣe kṛṣṇe dena olāhana

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “The gopīs entered the arena of the rāsa dance in ecstasy, but after hearing Kṛṣṇa’s words of negligence and detachment, they understood that He was going to renounce them. Thus they began to chastise Him in anger.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Love Expressed Through Anger

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu described how the gopīs entered the arena of the rāsa dance in ecstasy.

  2. 2

    Hearing Kṛṣṇa’s words of negligence and detachment, they understood that He was going to renounce them.

  3. 3

    Their anger arose in this loving encounter, and they began to chastise Him.

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.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. hailathere was
  2. gopīof the gopīs
  3. bhāva-āveśaecstatic emotion
  4. kailadid
  5. rāsein the rāsa dance
  6. paraveśaentrance
  7. kṛṣṇeraof Lord Kṛṣṇa
  8. śuni’hearing
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling

    Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “rāsa”

  • 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”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the gopīs’ initial ecstasy help you understand their anger at Kṛṣṇa’s words?

Practice

Read the translation slowly and notice the movement from ecstasy to fear of rejection and anger.

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