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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 17.52Antya 17.54

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.53

হাহা সখি, কি করি উপায় ! কাঁহা করোঁ, কাহাঁ যাঙ, কাহাঁ গেলে কৃষ্ণ পাঙ, কৃষ্ণ বিনা প্রাণ মোর যায় ।।” ৫৩ ।। ধ্রু ।। ॥ ৫৩ ॥

hā hā sakhi, ki kari upāya!

kāṅhā karoṅ, kāhāṅ yāṅa, kāhāṅ gele kṛṣṇa pāṅa,

kṛṣṇa vinā prāṇa mora yāya”

Translation

“O My dear friends, how shall I find Kṛṣṇa? What shall I do? Where shall I go? Where can I meet Him? Because I cannot find Kṛṣṇa, My life is leaving Me.”

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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.

Longing Seeks Only to Find Kṛṣṇa

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeals to His dear friends, asking how He can find Kṛṣṇa.

  2. 2

    The questions follow one another: what to do, where to go and where to meet Him.

  3. 3

    The anguish of not finding Kṛṣṇa is so intense that He says His life is leaving 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. hā hāO
  2. sakhifriends
  3. kiwhat
  4. karishall I do
  5. upāyameans
  6. kāṅhā karoṅwhat shall I do
  7. kāhāṅ yāṅawhere shall I go
  8. kāhāṅ gelewhere going
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How do these repeated questions convey the intensity of longing for Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Read the questions slowly once, noticing that each one seeks a meeting with Kṛṣṇa.

Live this todayLonging Seeks Only to Find KṛṣṇaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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