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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.201
কৃষ্ণ যদি রুক্মিণীরে কৈলা পরিহাস ।
‘কৃষ্ণ ছাড়িবেন’ — জানি’ রুক্মিণীর হৈল ত্রাস ॥ ২০১ ॥
kṛṣṇa yadi rukmiṇīre kailā parihāsa
‘kṛṣṇa chāḍibena’ — jāni’ rukmiṇīra haila trāsa
“Although Kṛṣṇa was joking with Queen Rukmiṇī, she was thinking that He was going to give up her company, and she was therefore shocked.
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Kṛṣṇa was joking with Queen Rukmiṇī.
Rukmiṇī thought that He was going to give up her company.
The thought that Kṛṣṇa would leave her shocked her.
Empowerment and hope. The seed of bhakti is received, planted, and watered; intimate realization becomes transmissible.
The mood of Madhya 19 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:
After this, a brāhmaṇa scholar named Raghupati Upādhyāya arrived and discussed Kṛṣṇa consciousness with the Lord. Kavirāja Gosvāmī then extensively describes the living condition of Śrī Rūpa and Sanātana at Vṛndāvana.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
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What does Rukmiṇī’s shock suggest to you about how much Kṛṣṇa’s company meant to her?
Write a short sentence distinguishing Kṛṣṇa’s joking from Rukmiṇī’s understanding of it.
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