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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 4.141
আমার মাধুর্য নাহি বাড়িতে অবকাশে ।
এ–দর্পণের আগে নব নব রূপে ভাসে ॥ ১৪১ ॥
āmāra mādhurya nāhi bāḍhite avakāśe
e-darpaṇera āge nava nava rūpe bhāse
“My sweetness also has no room for expansion, yet it shines before that mirror in newer and newer beauty.
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Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness has no room for expansion.
Yet His sweetness shines before the mirror in newer and newer beauty.
The verse holds together the fullness of His sweetness and its ever-new beauty.
Profound longing. Kṛṣṇa desires to taste Rādhā’s love, His own sweetness as She sees it, and Her joy.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Rādhārāṇī’s attraction for Kṛṣṇa is sublime, and to experience that attraction and understand the transcendental sweetness of Himself, He accepted the mentality of Rādhārāṇī. The third reason that Lord Caitanya appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Rādhārāṇī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
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What helps me appreciate beauty that is already full yet always new?
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