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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 4.193
এইমত পরস্পর পড়ে হুড়াহুড়ি ।
পরস্পর বাড়ে, কেহ মুখ নাহি মুড়ি ॥ ১৯৩ ॥
ei-mata paraspara paḍe huḍāhuḍi
paraspara bāḍhe, keha mukha nāhi muḍi
In this way a competition takes place between them in which no one acknowledges defeat.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The verse describes a competition taking place between them.
The competition is mutual, involving both sides.
No one acknowledges defeat.
Profound longing. Kṛṣṇa desires to taste Rādhā’s love, His own sweetness as She sees it, and Her joy.
The mood of Ādi 4 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:
These were secondary reasons. Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was the principal figure among Lord Caitanya’s confidential devotees.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What impression does this competition without acknowledged defeat leave on me?
Read the translation twice, pausing over the words “no one acknowledges defeat.”
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