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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.121
এবে প্রভু যত কৈলা অলৌকিক-লীলা ।
কে বর্ণিতে পারে সেই মহাপ্রভুর খেলা ? ১২১ ।। ॥ ১২১ ॥
ebe prabhu yata kailā alaukika-līlā
ke varṇite pāre sei mahāprabhura khelā?
Who can properly describe all the uncommon pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu? They are all simply His play.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes are described as uncommon.
The author asks who can properly describe them all, acknowledging the limits of description.
These pastimes are all simply His play.
Intense yearning. Darśana, dreams, and visions of Vraja bring overwhelming separation.
The mood of Antya 14 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:
As He ran toward it, He became stunned, and then the eight ecstatic transformations appeared in His body due to great love for Kṛṣṇa. At that time all the devotees chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra to pacify Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does recognizing these pastimes as His play shape your reading of them?
Return to one pastime in this batch and reread it with the closing words, “They are all simply His play,” in mind.
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