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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 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya
Antya 5.44Antya 5.47

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Antya 5.45-46

ব্রজবধূ-সঙ্গে কৃষ্ণের রাসাদি-বিলাস ।

যেই জন কহে, শুনে করিয়া বিশ্বাস ॥ ৪৫ ॥

vraja-vadhū-saṅge kṛṣṇera rāsādi-vilāsa

yei jana kahe, śune kariyā viśvāsa

Translation

“When one hears or describes with great faith the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa, such as His rāsa dance with the gopīs, the disease of lusty desires in his heart and the agitation caused by the three modes of material nature are immediately nullified, and he becomes sober and silent.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Faithful Hearing Removes Lusty Desires

  1. 1

    Hearing or describing Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes, such as His rāsa dance with the gopīs, requires great faith.

  2. 2

    Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura emphasizes serious hearing with a transcendental, spiritually inspired mind.

  3. 3

    Such hearing immediately removes lusty desires and the agitation caused by the three modes of material nature. The hearer becomes sober and silent.

Key points from the purport
  • Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments in this connection, “Any person seriously inclined to hear about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa’s rāsa dance, as mentioned in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, with great faith and a transcendental, spiritually inspired mind, is immediately freed from the natural lusty desires found within the heart of a materialistic man.”

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

Humility and discernment. The Lord directs a seeker to Rāmānanda and clarifies genuine spiritual qualification.

The mood of Antya 5 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Pradyumna Miśra, a resident of Śrīhaṭṭa, came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to hear from Him about Lord Kṛṣṇa and His pastimes. The Lord, however, sent him to Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 5
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. vraja-vadhū-saṅgein the association of the damsels of Vrajabhūmi
  2. kṛṣṇeraof Lord Kṛṣṇa
  3. rāsa-ādi-vilāsapastimes like the rāsa dance
  4. yeiwhich
  5. janaperson
  6. kahedescribes
  7. śunehears
  8. kariyā viśvāsawith great faith
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling

    Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “rāsa”

  • 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: “gopīs”

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 would it mean for me to hear about Kṛṣṇa with greater faith and spiritual seriousness?

Practice

Spend a few quiet minutes rereading this translation and purport, giving full attention to the attitude of hearing they describe.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

Quoted in 2 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Quoted in 2 lectures

In each of these he quotes this verse while speaking on another verse or subject. "Find the quote" opens the transcript at that spot.

Live this todayFaithful Hearing Removes Lusty DesiresThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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