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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 14.162Madhya 14.164

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.163

অহেরিব গতিঃ প্রেম্ণঃ স্বভাবকুটিলা ভবেৎ ।

অতো হেতোরহেতোশ্চ যূনোর্মান উদঞ্চতি ॥ ১৬৩ ॥

aher iva gatiḥ premṇaḥ

svabhāva-kuṭilā bhavet

ato hetor ahetoś ca

yūnor māna udañcati

Translation

“ ‘The progress of loving affairs between a young boy and a young girl is by nature crooked, like the movement of a snake. Because of this, two types of anger arise between a young boy and girl — anger with a cause and anger without a cause.’”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Love’s Progress Takes a Crooked Course

  1. 1

    Loving affairs between a young boy and girl progress crookedly, like the movement of a snake.

  2. 2

    Two types of anger arise: anger with a cause and anger without a cause.

  3. 3

    This quotation comes from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi.

Key points from the purport
  • This is a quotation from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Śṛṅgāra-bheda-prakaraṇa 102).

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 14
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. aheḥof the snake
  2. ivalike
  3. gatiḥthe movement
  4. premṇaḥof the loving affairs
  5. svabhāvaby nature
  6. kuṭilācrooked
  7. bhavetis
  8. ataḥtherefore
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the comparison to a snake’s movement help you notice about the progress of love described here?

Practice

Write down the two types of anger distinguished in this quotation.

Live this todayLove’s Progress Takes a Crooked CourseThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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