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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.46
এক অঞ্জলি, দুই অঞ্জলি, তিন অঞ্জলি পিলা ।
তবে মহাপ্রভু তাঁরে নিষেধ করিলা ॥ ৪৬ ॥
eka añjali, dui añjali, tina añjali pilā
tabe mahāprabhu tāṅre niṣedha karilā
Kālidāsa drank one palmful and then a second and a third. Then Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu forbade him to drink more.
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Kālidāsa drank one palmful of the water.
He then drank a second and a third palmful.
After the third, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu forbade him to drink more.
Sweetness amidst longing. Jagannātha’s prasādam awakens intense awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
The mood of Antya 16 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:
When the Bengali devotees of the Lord returned to Jagannātha Purī, a gentleman named Kālidāsa, who was an uncle of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, went with them to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kālidāsa had tasted the remnants of food of all the Vaiṣṇavas in Bengal, even Jhaḍu Ṭhākura.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
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How can eagerness be balanced with attentiveness to the Lord’s instruction?
Read this verse slowly, giving equal attention to Kālidāsa’s drinking and the Lord’s command to stop.
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