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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 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse
Madhya 24.55Madhya 24.57

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.56

কাস্ত্র্যঙ্গ তে কলপদামৃতবেণুগীত-

সম্মোহিতার্যচরিতান্ন চলেত্রিলোক্যাম্‌ ।

ত্রৈলোক্যসৌভগমিদঞ্চ নিরীক্ষ্য রূপং

যদ্‌গোদ্বিজদ্রুমমৃগাঃ পুলকান্যবিভ্রন্‌ ॥ ৫৬ ॥

kā stry aṅga te kala-padāmṛta-veṇu-gīta-

sammohitārya-caritān na calet tri-lokyām

trailokya-saubhagam idaṁ ca nirīkṣya rūpaṁ

yad go-dvija-druma-mṛgāḥ pulakāny abibhran

Translation

“ ‘My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, where is that woman within the three worlds who would not be captivated by the rhythms of the sweet songs coming from Your wonderful flute? Who would not fall down from the path of chastity in this way? Your beauty is the most sublime within the three worlds. Upon seeing Your beauty, even cows, birds, animals and trees in the forest become stunned in jubilation.’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s flute and beauty captivate living beings

  1. 1

    The verse asks what woman within the three worlds would not be captivated by the sweet songs of Kṛṣṇa’s wonderful flute, even falling from the path of chastity.

  2. 2

    Kṛṣṇa’s beauty is described as the most sublime within the three worlds.

  3. 3

    Upon seeing His beauty, even cows, birds, animals and trees in the forest become stunned in jubilation.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. kā strīwho is that woman
  2. aṅgaO Kṛṣṇa
  3. teof You
  4. kala-padaby the rhythms
  5. amṛta-veṇu-gītaand sweet songs of Your flute
  6. sammohitābeing captivated
  7. ārya-caritātfrom the path of chastity according to Vedic civilization
  8. nanot
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What strikes you about the animals and trees becoming stunned in jubilation at Kṛṣṇa’s beauty?

Practice

Read the final sentence slowly and spend a moment reflecting on the jubilation it describes.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s flute and beauty captivate living beingsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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