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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 11.106
চৈতন্যচরিত্র এই অমৃতের সিন্ধু ।
কর্ণ-মন তৃপ্ত করে যার এক বিন্দু ॥ ১০৬ ॥
caitanya-caritra ei amṛtera sindhu
karṇa-mana tṛpta kare yāra eka bindu
The life and characteristics of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are exactly like an ocean of nectar, one drop of which can please the mind and ear.
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The life and characteristics of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are compared to an ocean of nectar.
Even one drop of that nectar can please the mind.
That same drop can also please the ear, inviting attentive hearing of His life and characteristics.
Sacred grief and gratitude. The Lord personally honors Haridāsa’s departure and leads the funeral observances.
The mood of Antya 11 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:
He personally entombed the body, covered it with sand and erected a platform on the site. After taking a bath in the sea, He personally begged prasādam of Jagannātha from shopkeepers and distributed prasādam to the assembled devotees.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 11
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which detail of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s character in this account pleases my mind most?
Read aloud one verse from this batch about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and listen attentively to its description of Him.
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