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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.130
ব্রজে তোমার সঙ্গে যেই সুখ-আস্বাদন ।
সেই সুখসমুদ্রের ইহাঁ নাহি এক কণ ॥ ১৩০ ॥
vraje tomāra saṅge yei sukha-āsvādana
sei sukha-samudrera ihāṅ nāhi eka kaṇa
“Here there is not even a drop of the ocean of transcendental happiness that I enjoyed with You in Vṛndāvana.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The happiness enjoyed with the Lord in Vṛndāvana is described as transcendental.
That happiness is compared to an ocean.
The speaker finds not even a drop of that ocean here.
Public ecstasy with inward longing. The festival’s collective joy carries the profound Vraja mood of meeting and separation.
The mood of Madhya 13 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:
While performing kīrtana, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited various symptoms of transcendental ecstasy, and Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exchanged Their feelings very blissfully. When the cars reached the place known as Balagaṇḍi, the devotees offered the deities simple food.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the contrast between an ocean and a drop convey about this longing?
Read the verse slowly, pausing over the words “ocean of transcendental happiness.”
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