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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.139
ইঁহো নিজ-সম্পত্তি সব প্রকট করিয়া ।
প্রিয়ের উপর যায় সৈন্য সাজাঞা ॥ ১৩৯ ॥
iṅho nija-sampatti saba prakaṭa kariyā
priyera upara yāya sainya sājāñā
“But in the case of the goddess of fortune, I see a different kind of pride. She manifests her own opulences and even goes with her soldiers to attack her husband.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī wanted to tell Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu about the superexcellence of the gopīs’ loving affairs.
A beloved wife frustrated by neglect may stop caring for her appearance, wear dirty clothes, and sit morosely on the ground. Such pride had been heard of in Satyabhāmā and the gopīs of Vṛndāvana.
The goddess of fortune displays a different kind of pride at Jagannātha Purī. Angry with her husband, she manifests her great opulence and goes with her soldiers to attack Him.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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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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”, “gopīs’”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the goddess of fortune’s response differ from the other response described here?
Write one sentence contrasting withdrawal in hurt pride with the goddess of fortune’s display of opulence.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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