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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
Madhya 2.73Madhya 2.75

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 2.74

মারঃ স্বয়ং নু মধুরদ্যুতিমণ্ডলং নু

মাধুর্যমেব নু মনোনয়নামৃতং নু ।

বেণীমৃজো নু মম জীবিতবল্লভো নু

কৃষ্ণোঽয়মভ্যুদয়তে মম লোচনায় ॥ ৭৪ ॥

māraḥ svayaṁ nu madhura-dyuti-maṇḍalaṁ nu

mādhuryam eva nu mano-nayanāmṛtaṁ nu

veṇī-mṛjo nu mama jīvita-vallabho nu

kṛṣṇo ’yam abhyudayate mama locanāya

Translation

In the attitude of Rādhārāṇī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu addressed the gopīs: “ ‘My dear friends, where is that Kṛṣṇa, Cupid personified, who has the effulgence of a kadamba flower, who is sweetness itself, the nectar of My eyes and mind, He who loosens the hair of the gopīs, who is the supreme source of transcendental bliss and My life and soul? Has He come before My eyes again?’”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa Is Sweetness and Transcendental Bliss

  1. 1

    In the attitude of Rādhārāṇī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu addressed the gopīs as His dear friends and asked where Kṛṣṇa was.

  2. 2

    He described Kṛṣṇa as Cupid personified, with the effulgence of a kadamba flower. Kṛṣṇa is sweetness itself and the nectar of His eyes and mind.

  3. 3

    Kṛṣṇa is the supreme source of transcendental bliss and His life and soul. The purport identifies this quotation as a verse from the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

At that time the author, Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī, met Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, by whose mercy he also could memorize all the notes. In this way the author was able to complete this transcendental literature, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 2
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. māraḥCupid
  2. svayampersonally
  3. nuwhether
  4. madhurasweet
  5. dyutiof effulgence
  6. maṇḍalamencirclement
  7. nuwhether
  8. mādhuryamsweetness
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Key ideas in this verse

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”

  • 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: “gopīs”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which description of Kṛṣṇa in this verse most invites your reflection?

Practice

Choose one description of Kṛṣṇa from this verse and spend a minute reflecting on it.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa Is Sweetness and Transcendental BlissThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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