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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 13.138
যে এইসকল কথা শুনে শ্রদ্ধা করি’ ।
তাঁরে কৃষ্ণপ্রেমধন দেন গৌরহরি ॥ ১৩৮ ॥
ye ei-sakala kathā śune śraddhā kari’
tāṅre kṛṣṇa-prema-dhana dena gaurahari
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu [Gaurahari] bestows ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa upon anyone who hears all these topics with faith and love.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bestows ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa upon those who hear these topics with faith and love.
The invitation is open to anyone. Faith and love are the qualities of hearing emphasized here.
Ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa is a gift bestowed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, also called Gaurahari.
Concern and affectionate restraint. Devotees seek to care for the Lord while He maintains His renounced practice.
The mood of Antya 13 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:
Viśvāsa Paṇḍita was very proud of his education, and being an impersonalist, he was not well received by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. A summary of the life of Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī ends this chapter.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 13
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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 for krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I bring more faith and love to hearing these topics?
Today, read this translation aloud slowly, listening with a desire to receive love for Kṛṣṇa.
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