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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 8.47
বিস্তার দেখিয়া কিছু সঙ্কোচ হৈল মন ।
সূত্রধৃত কোন লীলা না কৈল বর্ণন ॥ ৪৭ ॥
vistāra dekhiyā kichu saṅkoca haila mana
sūtra-dhṛta kona līlā nā kaila varṇana
He saw them to be so extensive that he later felt that some had not been properly described.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author saw that the pastimes were very extensive.
He later reflected on how he had described them.
He felt that some had not been properly described.
Vulnerability and obedience. Kavirāja writes by mercy and command rather than personal self-assertion.
The mood of Ādi 8 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:
All these ācāryas will bestow their causeless mercy upon a devotee and gradually purify his heart. When he is actually purified, automatically he will experience ecstasy in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 8
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the author’s care in recognizing that some pastimes had not been properly described?
Reread this verse and pause over the author’s recognition that some descriptions were still insufficient.
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