Madhya-līlāChapter 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 2.74

māraḥ svayaḿ nu madhura-dyuti-maṇḍalaḿ nu

mādhuryam eva nu mano-nayanāmṛtaḿ nu

veṇī-mṛjo nu mama jīvita-vallabho nu

kṛṣṇo 'yam abhyudayate mama locanāya

SYNONYMS

māraḥ — Cupid; svayam — personally; nu — whether; madhura — sweet; dyuti — of effulgence; maṇḍalam — encirclement; nu — whether; mādhuryam — sweetness; eva — even; nu — certainly; manaḥ-nayana-amṛtam — nectar for the mind and eyes; nu — whether; veṇī-mṛjaḥ — loosening of the hair; nu — whether; mama — My; jīvita-vallabhaḥ — the pleasure of the life and soul; nu — whether; kṛṣṇaḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa; ayam — this; abhyudayate — manifests; mama — My; locanāya — for the eyes.

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?'"

PURPORT

This is another verse from the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta (68).

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