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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.161
বয়সে ‘মধ্যমা’তেঁহো স্বভাবেতে ‘সমা’ ।
গাঢ় প্রেমভাবে তেঁহো নিরন্তর ‘বামা’ ॥ ১৬১ ॥
vayase ‘madhyamā’ teṅho svabhāvete ‘samā’
gāḍha prema-bhāve teṅho nirantara ‘vāmā’
“Rādhārāṇī is grown up, and Her character is equipoised. She is always deeply absorbed in ecstatic love and always feeling in the mood of a left-wing gopī.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rādhārāṇī is grown up, and Her character is equipoised.
She is always deeply absorbed in ecstatic love.
She always feels in the mood of a left-wing gopī. The purport identifies Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi as explaining the left and right wings.
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:
The Lord, in His ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa, immediately embraced the King and thus bestowed mercy upon him. When there was an offering of prasādam in the garden, Lord Caitanya also partook of it.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 14
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”
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: “gopī”
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “ecstatic love”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about Rādhārāṇī’s equipoised character and Her deep absorption in ecstatic love?
Write down the qualities of Rādhārāṇī stated here, without adding assumptions about the left-wing mood.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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