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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.137
মানিনী নিরুৎসাহে ছাড়ে বিভূষণ ।
ভূমে বসি’ নখে লেখে, মলিন-বদন ॥ ১৩৭ ॥
māninī nirutsāhe chāḍe vibhūṣaṇa
bhūme vasi’ nakhe lekhe, malina-vadana
“When a woman is neglected and disappointed, out of egoistic pride she gives up her ornaments and morosely sits down on the ground, marking lines on it with her nails.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The description concerns a woman who feels neglected and disappointed.
Out of egoistic pride, she gives up her ornaments.
She sits morosely on the ground and marks lines on it with her nails.
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:
Near the Guṇḍicā temple is a place known as Āiṭoṭā. This place was fixed up for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to rest in.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 14
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do the outward actions in this description express neglect and disappointment?
List the three outward actions described, and beside them write the feelings the verse names.
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