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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.6

স্নান, দর্শন, ভোজন দেহ-স্বভাবে হয় ।

কুমারের চাক যেন সতত ফিরয় ॥ ৬ ॥

snāna, darśana, bhojana deha-svabhāve haya

kumārera cāka yena satata phiraya

Translation

Actually, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was always merged in ecstatic emotion, but just as a potter’s wheel turns without the potter’s touching it, the Lord’s bodily activities, like bathing, going to the temple to see Lord Jagannātha, and taking lunch, went on automatically.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Inner Absorption Amid Bodily Activities

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was actually always merged in ecstatic emotion.

  2. 2

    His bodily activities continued automatically, just as a potter’s wheel turns without the potter’s touching it.

  3. 3

    These activities included bathing, going to the temple to see Lord Jagannātha, and taking lunch.

How it feels

Absorbed searching. The Lord lives the gopīs’ search for Kṛṣṇa with ecstatic transformations.

The mood of Antya 15 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 15: The Transcendental Madness of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

After seeing the upala-bhoga ceremony of Lord Jagannātha, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once more began to feel ecstatic emotions. When He saw the garden on the beach by the sea, He again thought that He was in Vṛndāvana, and when He began to think of Kṛṣṇa engaging in His different pastimes, transcendental emotions excited Him again.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. snānabathing
  2. darśanavisiting the temple
  3. bhojanataking lunch
  4. deha-svabhāveby the nature of the body
  5. hayaare
  6. kumārera cākathe potter’s wheel
  7. yenaas
  8. satataalways
  9. phirayarevolves
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the potter’s wheel comparison clarify the Lord’s continued bodily activities?

Practice

Reread the potter’s wheel comparison today and summarize in one sentence what it explains.

Live this todayInner Absorption Amid Bodily ActivitiesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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