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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 17.50Antya 17.52

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.51

কিমিহ কৃণুমঃ কস্য ব্রূমঃ কৃতং কৃতমাশয়া কথয়ত কথামন্যাং ধন্যামহো হৃদয়েশয়ঃ ।

মধুরমধুরস্মেরাকারে মনোনয়নোৎসবে কৃপণকৃপণা কৃষ্ণে তৃষ্ণা চিরং বত লম্বতে ॥ ৫১ ॥

kim iha kṛṇumaḥ kasya brūmaḥ kṛtaṁ kṛtam āśayā

kathayata kathām anyāṁ dhanyām aho hṛdaye śayaḥ

madhura-madhura-smerākāre mano-nayanotsave

kṛpaṇa-kṛpaṇā kṛṣṇe tṛṣṇā ciraṁ bata lambate

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “ ‘Alas, what shall I do? To whom shall I speak? Let whatever I have done in hopes of meeting Kṛṣṇa be finished now. Please say something auspicious, but do not speak about Kṛṣṇa. Alas, Kṛṣṇa is lying within My heart like Cupid; therefore how can I possibly give up talking of Him? I cannot forget Kṛṣṇa, whose smile is sweeter than sweetness itself and who gives pleasure to My mind and eyes. Alas, My great thirst for Kṛṣṇa is increasing moment by moment!’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa Cannot Be Forgotten

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recites a statement by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, quoted from the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta.

  2. 2

    She asks that no one speak about Kṛṣṇa, yet He lies within Her heart like Cupid. She therefore cannot give up speaking of Him.

  3. 3

    His smile is sweeter than sweetness itself and gives pleasure to Her mind and eyes. Her thirst for Kṛṣṇa increases moment by moment.

Key points from the purport
  • This statement by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is quoted from the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta (42).

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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. kimwhat
  2. ihahere
  3. kṛṇumaḥshall I do
  4. kasyato whom
  5. brūmaḥshall I speak
  6. kṛtamwhat is done
  7. kṛtamdone
  8. āśayāin the hope
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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”

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 does the contrast between wanting silence and being unable to forget Kṛṣṇa help you notice?

Practice

Spend a quiet moment remembering the description of Kṛṣṇa’s smile as sweeter than sweetness itself.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa Cannot Be ForgottenThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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