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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.199
ব্যথা পাঞা’ করে যেন শুষ্ক রোদন ।
ঈষৎ হাসিয়া কৃষ্ণে করেন ভর্ৎসন ॥ ১৯৯ ॥
vyathā pāñā’ kare yena śuṣka rodana
īṣat hāsiyā kṛṣṇe karena bhartsana
“Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī externally displays a kind of dry crying, as if She is offended. Then She mildly smiles and admonishes Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī externally displays a kind of dry crying.
Through this expression, She appears as if She is offended.
Then She mildly smiles and admonishes Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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:
He performed sporting pastimes in the water of the lake known as Indradyumna. 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.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.
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”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “crying”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Her mild smile add to the description of Her apparent offense?
Notice the sequence in the translation today: dry crying, a mild smile and admonishment.
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