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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.173
এইসব স্থানে ‘কিলকিঞ্চিত’ উদ্গম ।
প্রথমে ‘হর্ষ’ সঞ্চারী — মূল কারণ ॥ ১৭৩ ॥
ei-saba sthāne ‘kila-kiñcita’ udgama
prathame ‘harṣa’ sañcārī — mūla kāraṇa
“At such times, the ecstatic symptoms of kila-kiñcita are awakened. First there is jubilation in ecstatic love, which is the root cause of these symptoms.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Jubilation in ecstatic love is the root cause of the symptoms of kila-kiñcita. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s shyness arises from Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s prohibitions.
Rādhārāṇī regularly carries milk to sell on the other side of the Yamunā. Kṛṣṇa stops Her and demands a fee; this pastime is called dāna-keli-līlā.
When Rādhārāṇī wants to pick a flower, Kṛṣṇa claims to be the garden’s proprietor and prohibits Her. At this time, ecstatic loving bodily symptoms called kila-kiñcita-bhāva become manifest.
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
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”
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’s”
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: “yamunā”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does knowing that jubilation is the root help you understand these symptoms?
Write down the root cause of kila-kiñcita: jubilation in ecstatic love.
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