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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 2.4
শ্রীরাধিকার চেষ্টা যেন উদ্ধব-দর্শনে ।
এইমত দশা প্রভুর হয় রাত্রি-দিনে ॥ ৪ ॥
śrī-rādhikāra ceṣṭā yena uddhava-darśane
ei-mata daśā prabhura haya rātri-dine
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s state of mind, day and night, was practically identical to Rādhārāṇī’s state of mind when Uddhava came to Vṛndāvana to see the gopīs.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s state of mind was practically identical to Rādhārāṇī’s.
This likeness continued both day and night.
The comparison is with Rādhārāṇī’s state of mind when Uddhava came to Vṛndāvana to see the gopīs.
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:
In the second chapter of the Madhya-līlā, the author describes the pastimes the Lord performed during the last twelve years of His life. Thus he has also described some of the pastimes of the antya-līlā.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: “vṛndāvana”, “gopīs”
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this comparison with Rādhārāṇī help you appreciate about the Lord’s state of mind?
Write one sentence summarizing whose state of mind the Lord reflected and when.
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