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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 14: Performance of the Vṛndāvana Pastimes
Madhya 14.151Madhya 14.153

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.152

কেহ ‘প্রখরা’, কেহ ‘মৃদু’, কেহ হয় ‘সমা’ ।

স্ব-স্বভাবে কৃষ্ণের বাড়ায় প্রেম-সীমা ॥ ১৫২ ॥

keha ‘prakharā’, keha ‘mṛdu’, keha haya ‘samā’

sva-svabhāve kṛṣṇera bāḍāya prema-sīmā

Translation

“Some of these heroines are very talkative, some are mild, and some are equipoised. Each heroine, according to her own character, increases Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s loving ecstasy.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Each Character Increases Kṛṣṇa’s Loving Ecstasy

  1. 1

    Some heroines are very talkative.

  2. 2

    Some are mild, and some are equipoised.

  3. 3

    Each heroine, according to her own character, increases Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s loving ecstasy.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 14: Performance of the Vṛndāvana Pastimes

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

This place was fixed up for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to rest in. When Lord Jagannātha was seated at Sundarācala, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw it as Vṛndāvana.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. kehasome
  2. prakharāvery talkative
  3. kehasome
  4. mṛduvery mild
  5. keha hayasome of them are
  6. samāequipoised
  7. sva-svabhāveby their own characteristics
  8. kṛṣṇeraof Lord Kṛṣṇa
  9. bāḍāyaincreases
  10. prema-sīmālimit of loving ecstasy
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What shared result comes from these different characters?

Practice

Today, list the three kinds of character and write their shared result: increasing Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s loving ecstasy.

Live this todayEach Character Increases Kṛṣṇa’s Loving EcstasyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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