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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.89
নিরন্তর নাসায় পশে কৃষ্ণ-পরিমল ।
গন্ধ আস্বাদিতে প্রভু হইলা পাগল ॥ ৮৯ ॥
nirantara nāsāya paśe kṛṣṇa-parimala
gandha āsvādite prabhu ha-ilā pāgala
But the scent of Kṛṣṇa’s body incessantly entered His nostrils, and the Lord became mad to relish it.
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The scent of Kṛṣṇa’s body incessantly entered the Lord’s nostrils.
The Lord became mad with eagerness to relish that scent.
The following verse connects His longing with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s longing for Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental scent.
Longing beyond ordinary categories. Extreme separation alternates with moments of visionary encounter.
The mood of Antya 19 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
This chapter further describes how Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu entered the Jagannātha-vallabha garden during the full-moon night of Vaiśākha (April-May) and experienced various transcendental ecstasies. Overwhelmed with ecstatic love at suddenly seeing Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa beneath an aśoka tree, He exhibited various symptoms of spiritual madness.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 19
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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’s”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “longing”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the Lord’s eagerness reveal about the attraction of Kṛṣṇa’s scent?
Read the translation slowly today, pausing over the words “incessantly” and “relish.”
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