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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.126
অতএব কৃষ্ণের প্রাকট্যে নাহি কিছু দোষ ।
তবে কেনে লক্ষ্মীদেবী করে এত রোষ ? ১২৬ ॥
ataeva kṛṣṇera prākaṭye nāhi kichu doṣa
tabe kene lakṣmīdevī kare eta roṣa?
“Since there is no fault at all in Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes, why does the goddess of fortune become angry?”
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There is no fault at all in Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes.
The goddess of fortune nevertheless becomes angry.
The Lord asks why she becomes angry when Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes are faultless.
Intimacy and ecstatic play. Mercy to Pratāparudra and discussion of the gopīs reveal deep relational sweetness.
The mood of Madhya 14 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:
For nine continuous days during Ratha-yātrā, the Lord remained at Sundarācala, and on the fifth day He and Svarūpa Dāmodara observed the pastimes of Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune. During that time, there was much talk about the pastimes of the gopīs.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 14
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