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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.39
দ্বাদশ বৎসর শেষ রহিলা নীলাচলে ।
প্রেমাবস্থা শিখাইলা আস্বাদন–চ্ছলে ॥ ৩৯ ॥
dvādaśa vatsara śeṣa rahilā nīlācale
premāvasthā śikhāilā āsvādana-cchale
For the remaining twelve years He stayed in Jagannātha Purī, He taught everyone how to taste the transcendental mellow ecstasy of love of Kṛṣṇa by tasting it Himself.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
During His last twelve years at Jagannātha Purī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught how separation awakens dormant love of Kṛṣṇa. In advanced Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the feeling of separation excels the feeling of meeting Kṛṣṇa.
Feelings of separation and meeting develop in time through serious devotional service. Prema-bhakti, the stage of relishing love, is attained through sādhana-bhakti and its regulative principles, not by artificial elevation.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa Himself, acting in the role of a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. By His own practical example, He taught the world to execute devotional service and, in due course, go back home, back to Godhead.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Jubilation and hope. The Lord appears in Navadvīpa; the theological promise becomes a lived story.
The mood of Ādi 13 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Within the Lord’s antya-līlā, the first six years of His sannyāsa life are called the madhya-līlā. During this time, Caitanya Mahāprabhu toured southern India, went to Vṛndāvana, returned from Vṛndāvana and preached the saṅkīrtana movement.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of krsna”, “prema-bhakti”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellow”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you focus on sincere devotional practice rather than trying to display advanced feelings?
Give a few attentive minutes to your devotional practice today, without trying to manufacture exalted feelings.
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