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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.39
এক শ্লোকের অর্থ যদি কর নিজ–মুখে ।
শুনি’ সব শ্লোক তবে পাইব বড়সুখে ॥ ৩৯ ॥
eka ślokera artha yadi kara nija-mukhe
śuni’ saba loka tabe pāiba baḍa-sukhe
“But if you explain the meaning of one verse, we can all hear it from your own mouth and thus be very happy.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord asked the poet to explain the meaning of one verse.
He wanted everyone to hear the explanation from the poet's own mouth.
The Lord said that hearing this explanation would make them all very happy.
Grief and transformed pride. Lakṣmīdevī’s departure brings sorrow; Keśava Kāśmīrī’s pride yields to surrender.
The mood of Ādi 16 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:
He went to East Bengal to secure financial assistance, cultivate knowledge and introduce the saṅkīrtana movement, and there He met Tapana Miśra, whom He instructed about spiritual advancement and ordered to go to Vārāṇasī. While Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was touring East Bengal, His wife, Lakṣmīdevī, was bitten by a serpent or by the serpent of separation, and thus she left this world.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I ask for an explanation when I hear something I do not understand?
Choose one passage you find difficult and ask someone to explain its meaning.
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