Caitanyacandrodaya-nāṭakam – Page 2

dhṛta-phaṇa iva bhogī gāruḍīyasya gānaṁ

dhṛta-phaṇa iva bhogī gāruḍīyasya gānaṁ
tad-uditam atiratyākarṇayan sāvadhānam |
vyadhikaraṇatayā vānanda-vaivaśyato vā
prabhur atha kara-padmenāsyāpy adhatta ||
(Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭakam: 7.16)

“Like a snake with its hood drawn out listening to the song of a snake-charmer, Prabhu listened attentively with great delight to his [i.e., Rāmānanda Rāya’s] statement and then stopped him [from speaking any further] with his lotus hand either because of incongruity [i.e., because this was not the time he wanted this secret revealed] or because he was overwhelmed with bliss.”

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ahaṁ kāntā kāntās tvam iti na tadānīṁ matir abhūn

ahaṁ kāntā kāntās tvam iti na tadānīṁ matir abhūn
mano-vṛttir luptā tvam aham iti nau dhīr api hatā |
bhavān bhartā bhāryāham iti yad idānīṁ vyavasitis
tathāpi prāṇānāṁ sthitir iti vicitraṁ kim aparam ||
(Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭakam: 7.15)

[Rādhā speaks to Kṛṣṇa in Mathurā through a messenger:] “‘I am the female lover, and you are the male lover.’ I did not have this notion then [when you were here in Vraja]. This mentality was absent, and even our awareness of ‘you’ and ‘I’ was lost. Although we now [again] have the certainty that you are the man and I am the woman, still my prāṇas are present [in my body]. What is more astonishing than this?”

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sakhi na sa ramaṇo nāhaṁ ramaṇīti bhidāvayor āste

sakhi na sa ramaṇo nāhaṁ ramaṇīti bhidāvayor āste |
prema-rasenobhaya-mana iva madano niṣpipeṣa balāt ||
(Caitanyacandrodaya-nāṭakam: 7.14)

“[Rādhā:] O sakhī, he was not the male lover, and I was not the female lover, as any distinction between us had ceased; it was as though Madana had forcibly ground our minds [together] with prema-rasa.”

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heloddhūnita-khedayā viśadayā pronmīlad-āmodayā

heloddhūnita-khedayā viśadayā pronmīlad-āmodayā
śāmyac-chāstra-vivādayā rasa-dayā citārpitonmādayā |
śaśvad-bhakti-vinodayā samadayā mādhurya-maryādayā
śrī-caitanya dayā-nidhe tava dayā bhūyād amandodayā ||
(Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭakam: 8.14; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.10.119)

“O ocean of grace, Śrī Caitanya! May your grace arising in abundance with the limit of mādhurya—[mādhurya] by which lamentation is easily cast away, which is brilliant [i.e., pure], which fully expands delight, which resolves dispute over śāstra, which bestows rasa, by which unmāda [i.e., madness] is cast into the mind, which manifests eternal delight in bhakti, and which is endowed with mada [i.e., jubilation]—be [bestowed upon me].”

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vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga-

vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga-
śikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ |
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-śarīra-dhārī
kṛpāmbudhir yas tam ahaṁ prapadye ||
(Caitanyacandrodaya-nāṭakam: 6.74; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.6.254)

“The one, primeval Puruṣa,
The Ocean of grace,
Who became he bearing the figure of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya
For the sake of teaching
Knowledge of non-attachment
And the practice of bhakti to himself—
I take shelter in him.”

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