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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.56

কহিতেই হইল স্মৃতি, চিত্তে হইল কৃষ্ণস্ফূর্তি, সখীরে কহে হঞা বিস্মিতে ।

“যারে চাহি ছাড়িতে, সেই শুঞা আছে চিত্তে, কোন রীতে না পারি ছাড়িতে ।।” ৫৬ ।। ॥ ৫৬ ॥

kahitei ha-ila smṛti, citte haila kṛṣṇa-sphūrti,

sakhīre kahe hañā vismite

“yāre cāhi chāḍite, sei śuñā āche citte,

kona rīte nā pāri chāḍite”

Translation

While speaking in this way, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī suddenly remembered Kṛṣṇa. Indeed, He appeared within Her heart. Greatly astonished, She told Her friends, “The person I want to forget is lying in My heart.”

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa Remains Within Her Heart

  1. 1

    While speaking of forgetting Kṛṣṇa, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī suddenly remembered Him.

  2. 2

    Indeed, Kṛṣṇa appeared within Her heart, filling Her with astonishment.

  3. 3

    She told Her friends that the very person She wanted to forget was lying in Her heart.

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. kahiteiwhile speaking
  2. ha-ilathere was
  3. smṛtiremembrance
  4. cittein the heart
  5. hailathere was
  6. kṛṣṇa-sphūrtithe appearance of Kṛṣṇa
  7. sakhīreto the friends
  8. kahesaid
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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”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does Her astonishment reveal about the contrast between Her words and Her remembrance?

Practice

Pause over Her final statement and reflect on Kṛṣṇa’s presence within Her heart.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa Remains Within Her HeartThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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