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1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
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 17.36 Antya 17.38

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.37

অন্যকথা, অন্যমন, বাহিরে অন্য আচরণ, এই সব শঠ-পরিপাটী ।

তুমি জান পরিহাস, হয় নারীর সর্বনাশ, ছাড় এই সব কুটীনাটী ॥ ৩৭ ॥

anya-kathā, anya-mana, bāhire anya ācaraṇa,

ei saba śaṭha-paripāṭī

tumi jāna parihāsa, haya nārīra sarva-nāśa,

chāḍa ei saba kuṭīnāṭī

Translation

“ ‘We know that this is all a well-planned trick. You know how to make jokes that cause the complete annihilation of women, but we can understand that Your real mind, words and behavior are different. Therefore please give up all these clever tricks.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Gopīs Challenge Kṛṣṇa’s Clever Tricks

1
The gopīs called Kṛṣṇa’s behavior a well-planned trick.
2
They said His jokes could cause the complete annihilation of women, yet they understood His real mind, words, and behavior to be different.
3
They therefore asked Him to give up His clever tricks.

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

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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anyadifferent
kathāwords
anyadifferent
manamind
bāhireexternally
anyadifferent
ācaraṇabehavior
eithese

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”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the gopīs’ confidence about Kṛṣṇa’s real intention shape their appeal?

Practice

Reread the verse and identify both the gopīs’ complaint and their direct request.

Live this todayThe Gopīs Challenge Kṛṣṇa’s Clever TricksThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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