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# Gopalacampu 1.35.72

Gopālacampū 1.35.72

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.35.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.35.72)

puryām asyāṃ yad asmi prakaṭam api hi taṃ hanta kuryāṃ kathaṃ tat  
kiṃ tu cchāyā-sadṛkṣaḥ sphuṭam iha viharet tatra tu svena nityam |  
āveśo yatra yasya sphurati sa niyataṃ tatra bhāti svayaṃ yat  
sphūrtiṃ svāṃ so'yam asmīty anubhajati yathā tena nānyena tad-vat ||

> Alas, how could I make visible that form which I truly am in this city? / But a semblance like a shadow may sport here openly, while in Vraja I remain eternally with my own \[self\]. / For wherever a person's absorption shines forth, there indeed he himself appears; / just as one experiences one’s own manifestation as 'I am this person,' so it is through that, not through another. ||  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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