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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.55
যোগ্যভাবে জগতে যত যুবতীর গণ ॥ ৫৫ ॥
yogya-bhāve jagate yata yuvatīra gaṇa
“Kṛṣṇa attracts not only the minds of the gopīs and the goddesses of fortune but the minds of all the young girls in the three worlds as well.
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Kṛṣṇa attracts the minds of the gopīs and the goddesses of fortune.
His attraction also reaches all the young girls in the three worlds.
The following verse describes the captivating sweetness of His flute and the sublime beauty of His form.
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
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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: “gopīs”
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How does this verse broaden your understanding of Kṛṣṇa’s attraction?
Read this verse together with the next and note the descriptions of what makes Kṛṣṇa captivating.
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