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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.38
বামস্তামরসাক্ষস্য ভুজদণ্ডঃ স পাতু বঃ ।
ক্রীড়াকন্দুকতাং যেন নীতো গোবর্ধনো গিরিঃ ॥ ৩৮ ॥
vāmas tāmarasākṣasya
bhuja-daṇḍaḥ sa pātu vaḥ
krīḍā-kandukatāṁ yena
nīto govardhano giriḥ
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “ ‘May the left arm of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose eyes are like the petals of a lotus flower, always protect you. With His left arm He raised Govardhana Hill as if it were a toy.’”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited a prayer asking that Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s left arm always protect the hearer.
The prayer describes Kṛṣṇa’s eyes as resembling lotus petals. With His left arm, He raised Govardhana Hill as if it were a toy.
This verse is found in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had no desire to climb Govardhana Hill because the hill is worshiped as Kṛṣṇa. The Gopāla Deity could understand the mind of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; therefore on the plea of being attacked by Muslims, Gopāla transferred Himself to the village of Gāṅṭhuli-grāma.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “govardhana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Kṛṣṇa’s effortless lifting of Govardhana shape your reflection on His protection?
Read the prayer aloud once, giving attention to its request for Kṛṣṇa’s protection.
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