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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 16.43
ঝঞ্ঝাবাত–প্রায় আমি শ্লোক পড়িল।
তার মধ্যে শ্লোক তুমি কৈছে কণ্ঠে কৈল ॥ ৪৩ ॥
jhañjhāvāta-prāya āmi śloka paḍila
tāra madhye śloka tumi kaiche kaṇṭhe kaila
“I recited all the verses like the blowing wind. How could You completely learn by heart even one among those verses?”
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The champion said that he had recited all the verses like the blowing wind.
He asked how the Lord could have learned even one of those verses completely by heart.
His question expressed astonishment at the Lord’s ability to remember what He had heard.
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.
What strikes you about the contrast between the swift recitation and the Lord’s complete recall?
Read the champion’s question aloud, pausing to consider his astonishment.
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