वन्दे तं कृष्णचैतन्यं गौरं कृष्णमपि स्वयम् ।
यो राधाभावसंलुब्धः स्वं भावं नितरां जहौ ॥

vande taṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanyaṁ gauraṁ kṛṣṇam api svayam |
yo rādhā-bhāva-saṁlubdhaḥ svaṁ bhāvaṁ nitarāṁ jahau ||
(Attributed to Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī by Mukunda Dāsa Gosvāmī in his Artha-ratnālpa-dīpikā on Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu and Rādhā Kṛṣṇa Dāsa Gosvāmī in his Daśa-śloki-bhāṣya)

“I offer obeisance unto him, Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, who is golden although he is Kṛṣṇa [alt., blackish] himself, and, being intensely desirous of Rādhā’s bhāva, has completely given up his own bhāva.”

Alternate version

vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanyaṁ gauraṁ kṛṣṇam api svayam |
yo rādhā-bhāva-saṁlubdhaḥ svabhāvaṁ nitarāṁ jahau ||

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