Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Madhya 9.150

gopīnām paśupendra-nandana-jusho bhāvasya kas tām kritī

vijñātum kshamate durūha-padavī-sañcārinah prakriyām

āvishkurvati vaishnavīm api tanum tasmin bhujair jishnubhir

yāsām hanta caturbhir adbhuta-rucim rāgodayah kuñcati

SYNONYMS

gopīnām — of the gopīs; paśupa-indra-nandana-jushah — of the service of the son of Vraja's King, Mahārāja Nanda; bhāvasya — ecstatic; kah — what; tām — that; kritī — learned man; vijñātum — to understand; kshamate — is able; durūha — very difficult to understand; padavī — the position; sañcārinah — which provokes; prakriyām — activity; āvishkurvati — He manifests; vaishnavīm — of Vishnu; api — certainly; tanum — the body; tasmin — in that; bhujaih — with arms; jishnubhih — very beautiful; yāsām — of whom (the gopīs); hanta — alas; caturbhih — four; adbhuta — wonderfully; rucim — beautiful; rāga-udayah — the evoking of ecstatic feelings; kuñcati — cripples.

TRANSLATION

"'Once Lord Śrī Krishna playfully manifested Himself as Nārāyana, with four victorious hands and a very beautiful form. When the gopīs saw this exalted form, however, their ecstatic feelings were crippled. A learned scholar, therefore, cannot understand the gopīs' ecstatic feelings, which are firmly fixed upon the original form of Lord Krishna as the son of Nanda Mahārāja. The wonderful feelings of the gopīs in ecstatic parama-rasa with Krishna constitute the greatest mystery in spiritual life.'"

PURPORT

This is a verse spoken by Nārada Muni in the Lalita-mādhava-nātaka (6.14), a drama written by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.

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