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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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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 13: The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yātrā
Madhya 13.136Madhya 13.138

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.137

অন্যের হৃদয় — মন,     মোর মন — বৃন্দাবন,

‘মনে’ ‘বনে’ এক করি’ জানি ।

তাহাঁ তোমার পদদ্বয়,     করাহ যদি উদয়,

তবে তোমার পূর্ণ কৃপা মানি ॥ ১৩৭ ॥

anyera hṛdaya — mana, mora mana — vṛndāvana,

‘mane’ ‘vane’ eka kari’ jāni

tāhāṅ tomāra pada-dvaya, karāha yadi udaya,

tabe tomāra pūrṇa kṛpā māni

Translation

Speaking in the mood of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “For most people, the mind and heart are one, but because My mind is never separated from Vṛndāvana, I consider My mind and Vṛndāvana to be one. My mind is already Vṛndāvana, and since You like Vṛndāvana, will You please place Your lotus feet there? I would deem that Your full mercy.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

A Mind Fixed on Kṛṣṇa Becomes Vṛndāvana

  1. 1

    The mind thinks, feels and wills, ordinarily accepting materially favorable things and rejecting unfavorable ones.

  2. 2

    When the mind simply becomes fixed on Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, it becomes as good as Vṛndāvana. Wherever Kṛṣṇa is, His companions are also present.

  3. 3

    When the mind is free from material desires and engaged only in the Lord’s service, one always lives in Vṛndāvana.

Key points from the purport
  • But when one’s mind does not accept and reject but simply becomes fixed on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then one’s mind becomes as good as Vṛndāvana.
  • Thus as soon as one fixes Kṛṣṇa in his mind, his mind becomes identical with Vṛndāvana.
  • In other words, when one’s mind is completely free from all material desires and is engaged only in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then one always lives in Vṛndāvana, and nowhere else.

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

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

Further reading

Madhya 13: The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yātrā

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

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu divided His saṅkīrtana party into seven divisions. With two mṛdaṅgas in each division, there were altogether fourteen mṛdaṅgas.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. anyeraof others
  2. hṛdayaconsciousness
  3. manamind
  4. mora manaMy mind
  5. vṛndāvanaVṛndāvana consciousness
  6. manewith the mind
  7. vanewith Vṛndāvana
  8. eka kari’as one and the same
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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: “mercy”, “favorable”

  • 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”

  • 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: “separated”

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 occupies my mind most: material preferences or the desire to serve Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Spend one quiet minute thinking of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet and asking to engage your mind in His service.

Live this todayA Mind Fixed on Kṛṣṇa Becomes VṛndāvanaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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