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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 7: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Vallabha Bhaṭṭa

Antya 7.28 Antya 7.30

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 7.29

নায়ং শ্রিয়োঽঙ্গ উ নিতান্তরতেঃ প্রসাদঃ স্বর্যোষিতাং নলিনগন্ধরুচাং কুতোঽন্যাঃ ।

রাসোৎসবেঽস্য ভুজদণ্ডগৃহীতকণ্ঠ- লব্ধাশিষাং য উদগাদ্ব্রজসুন্দরীণাম্ ॥ ২৯ ॥

nāyaṁ śriyo ’ṅga u nitānta-rateḥ prasādaḥ

svar-yoṣitāṁ nalina-gandha-rucāṁ kuto ’nyāḥ

rāsotsave ’sya bhuja-daṇḍa-gṛhīta-kaṇṭha-

labdhāśiṣāṁ ya udagād vraja-sundarīṇām

Translation

“ ‘When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was dancing with the gopīs in the rāsa-līlā, the gopīs were embraced around the neck by the Lord’s arms. This transcendental favor was never bestowed upon the goddess of fortune or the other consorts in the spiritual world. Nor was such a thing ever imagined by the most beautiful girls in the heavenly planets, girls whose bodily luster and aroma resemble the beauty and fragrance of lotus flowers. And what to speak of worldly women, who may be very, very beautiful according to material estimation?’

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Gopīs Receive Incomparable Transcendental Favor

1
During the rāsa-līlā, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa embraced the gopīs around their necks with His arms.
2
This transcendental favor was never bestowed upon the goddess of fortune or the other consorts in the spiritual world.
3
Even the most beautiful girls in the heavenly planets could not imagine such favor. Worldly beauty offers still less basis for comparison.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Antya 7.29 quotesSB 10.47.60

This is a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.47.60).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Pride softened by grace. Humor and correction lead toward humility and a relationship of devotion.

The mood of Antya 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Antya 7: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Vallabha Bhaṭṭa

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

In this chapter, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s meeting with Vallabha Bhaṭṭa is described. There was some joking behavior between these two personalities, and finally Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu corrected Vallabha Bhaṭṭa and sympathetically accepted an invitation from him.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

nanot
ayamthis
śriyaḥof the goddess of fortune
aṅgeon the chest
ualas
nitānta-rateḥwho is very intimately related
prasādaḥthe favor
svaḥof the heavenly planets

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “favor”, “embraced”
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-līlā”
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.

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this verse challenge the value you place on outward beauty?

Practice

Read the verse slowly once, focusing on the gopīs’ transcendental favor rather than material beauty.

Live this todayThe Gopīs Receive Incomparable Transcendental FavorThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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