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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.37
কদাহং যমুনাতীরে নামানি তব কীর্তয়ন্ ।
উদ্বাষ্পঃ পুণ্ডরীকাক্ষ রচয়িষ্যামি তাণ্ডবম্ ॥ ৩৭ ॥
kadāhaṁ yamunā-tīre
nāmāni tava kīrtayan
udbāṣpaḥ puṇḍarīkākṣa
racayiṣyāmi tāṇḍavam
“ ‘O Lord Puṇḍarīkākṣa, while chanting Your holy name with tears in my eyes, when shall I dance in ecstasy on the bank of the Yamunā?’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The prayer addresses the Lord as Puṇḍarīkākṣa.
The speaker longs to chant the Lord’s holy name with tears in his eyes.
He asks when he will dance in ecstasy on the bank of the Yamunā.
Theological emotional crescendo. Bhāva, prema, the devotional rasas, and mahābhāva are systematically expounded.
The mood of Madhya 23 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:
Conjugal love is divided into two categories — svakīya and parakīya. Svakīya refers to loving affairs between husband and wife, and parakīya refers to loving affairs between two lovers.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 23
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “holy name”, “chant”
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: “yamunā”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What longing do you hear in the words “when shall I”?
Chant the Lord’s holy name today, then read this prayer as an expression of longing.
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