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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 15.98
অনন্ত চৈতন্যলীলা না যায় লিখন ।
দিঙ্মাত্র দেখাঞা তাহা করিয়ে সূচন ॥ ৯৮ ॥
ananta caitanya-līlā nā yāya likhana
diṅ-mātra dekhāñā tāhā kariye sūcana
The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are unlimited; it is not possible to write of them properly. I can give only an indication of them as I try to introduce them.
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The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are unlimited. No written account can describe them properly in their entirety.
The narrator offers only an indication of these pastimes. His aim is to introduce them, not to claim a complete account.
After describing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstatic chanting and dancing, the narrator acknowledges the limits of his description. This places the account before us with humility.
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:
Caitanya Mahāprabhu then exhibited the ecstatic transformations known as bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, bhāva-śābalya and so on. The Lord experienced all eight kinds of ecstatic transformations, and He relished them very much.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 15
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “humility”
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might knowing that these pastimes are unlimited change the way you read about them?
Reread the preceding description of chanting and dancing, remembering that it offers only an indication of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s unlimited pastimes.
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