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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 2.16
কাহারে কহিব, কেবা জানে মোর দুঃখ ।
ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন বিনু ফাটে মোর বুক ॥ ১৬ ॥
kāhāre kahiba, kebā jāne mora duḥkha
vrajendra-nandana vinu phāṭe mora buka
“To whom should I speak? Who can understand My disappointment? Without the son of Nanda Mahārāja, My heart is broken.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
He asked to whom He should speak.
He wondered who could understand His disappointment.
He declared that His heart was broken without the son of Nanda Mahārāja.
Overwhelming divine separation. A preview of the last years reveals the Lord’s intense separation from Kṛṣṇa.
The mood of Madhya 2 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:
Why he has done so is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand. The author expects that reading the pastimes of the Lord will gradually help a person awaken his dormant love of Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 2
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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: “nanda”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What depth of longing do you hear in the words “My heart is broken”?
Spend a quiet minute reflecting on His words about being without the son of Nanda Mahārāja.
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