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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 4.143
আমার মাধুর্য নিত্য নব নব হয় ।
স্ব–স্ব–প্রেম–অনুরূপ ভক্তে আস্বাদয় ॥ ১৪৩ ॥
āmāra mādhurya nitya nava nava haya
sva-sva-prema-anurūpa bhakte āsvādaya
“My sweetness is always newer and newer. Devotees taste it according to their own respective love.
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Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness is always newer and newer.
Devotees taste His sweetness.
Each devotee tastes it according to their own respective love.
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:
Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was the principal figure among Lord Caitanya’s confidential devotees. The records of his diary have revealed these confidential purposes of the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
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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”
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What does this verse teach me about the place of love in tasting Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness?
Write one sentence about the connection this verse makes between love and tasting Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
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