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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.88
সেই পদ পুনঃ পুনঃ করায় গায়ন ।
পুনঃ পুনঃ আস্বাদয়ে, করেন নর্তন ॥ ৮৮ ॥
sei pada punaḥ punaḥ karāya gāyana
punaḥ punaḥ āsvādaye, karena nartana
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu had Svarūpa Dāmodara sing the same verse again and again. Each time he sang it, the Lord tasted it anew, and thus He danced again and again.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu had Svarūpa Dāmodara sing the same verse again and again.
Each time He heard it, the Lord tasted it anew.
With this renewed taste, He danced again and again.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recited a verse from the Gīta-govinda just suitable to the Lord’s emotions. Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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Read the supplied song about remembering Kṛṣṇa three times, pausing each time to attend freshly to its words.
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