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How to study this verse, in six steps

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 19: The Inconceivable Behavior of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Antya 19.89 Antya 19.91

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.90

কৃষ্ণগন্ধ-লুব্ধা রাধা সখীরে যে কহিলা ।

সেই শ্লোক পড়ি’ প্রভু অর্থ করিলা ॥ ৯০ ॥

kṛṣṇa-gandha-lubdhā rādhā sakhīre ye kahilā

sei śloka paḍi’ prabhu artha karilā

Translation

Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī once spoke a verse to Her gopī friends describing how She hankers for the transcendental scent of Kṛṣṇa’s body. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited that same verse and made its meaning clear.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Expresses Rādhārāṇī’s Longing

1
Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī once described Her longing for the transcendental scent of Kṛṣṇa’s body.
2
She expressed this longing in a verse spoken to Her gopī friends.
3
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited that same verse and made its meaning clear.

How it feels

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

Antya 19: The Inconceivable Behavior of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

kṛṣṇa-gandhathe scent of the body of Kṛṣṇa
lubdhāhankering after
rādhāŚrīmatī Rādhārāṇī
sakhīreto Her gopī friends
ye kahilāwhatever She said
seithat
ślokaverse
paḍi’reciting
prabhuŚrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
artha karilāexplained its meaning

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”
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: “gopī”
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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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does knowing whose words the Lord recites help you read the next verse?

Practice

Read the next verse with this context in mind: these are Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s words of longing.

Live this todayThe Lord Expresses Rādhārāṇī’s LongingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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