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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.51
রূপ-গুণ-শ্রবণে রুক্মিণ্যাদির আকর্ষণ ॥ ৫১ ॥
rūpa-guṇa-śravaṇe rukmiṇy-ādira ākarṣaṇa
“The queens in Dvārakā, headed by Rukmiṇī, are also attracted to Kṛṣṇa simply by hearing about His transcendental beauty and qualities.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The queens in Dvārakā, headed by Rukmiṇī, are also attracted to Kṛṣṇa.
Their attraction arises simply by hearing about His transcendental beauty and qualities.
The following verse gives Rukmiṇī’s own expression of how hearing about Kṛṣṇa drew her to Him.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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:
According to Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī’s request, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the well-known Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam verse beginning ātmārāmāś ca munayaḥ. He explained this verse in sixty-one different ways.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might attentive hearing deepen your attraction to Kṛṣṇa?
Read aloud one description of Kṛṣṇa’s beauty from this batch and listen carefully to the words.
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