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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 10.8
আজ্ঞা-পালনে কৃষ্ণের যৈছে পরিতোষ ।
প্রেমে আজ্ঞা ভাঙ্গিলে হয় কোটিসুখ-পোষ ॥ ৮ ॥
ājñā-pālane kṛṣṇera yaiche paritoṣa
preme ājñā bhāṅgile haya koṭi-sukha-poṣa
If one carries out Kṛṣṇa’s order, Kṛṣṇa is certainly pleased, but if one sometimes breaks His order due to ecstatic love, that gives Him millions of times greater happiness.
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Kṛṣṇa is certainly pleased when someone carries out His order.
If someone sometimes breaks His order due to ecstatic love, that gives Him millions of times greater happiness.
Ecstatic love is the stated reason for this greater happiness, as illustrated by the gopīs remaining for His association.
Tender service. Food prepared and carried with love becomes a medium of intimate exchange.
The mood of Antya 10 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:
Before the Ratha-yātrā ceremony, all the devotees from Bengal started for Jagannātha Purī as usual. Rāghava Paṇḍita brought with him various kinds of food for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 10
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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: “ecstatic love”
Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association
Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “association”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīs”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this verse deepen my understanding of the happiness that ecstatic love gives Kṛṣṇa?
Read the verse slowly and note both what pleases Kṛṣṇa and what gives Him even greater happiness.
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