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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.61
এই তিন-সেবা হৈতে কৃষ্ণপ্রেমা হয় ।
পুনঃ পুনঃ সর্বশাস্ত্রে ফুকারিয়া কয় ॥ ৬১ ॥
ei tina-sevā haite kṛṣṇa-premā haya
punaḥ punaḥ sarva-śāstre phukāriyā kaya
By rendering service to these three, one attains the supreme goal of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa. In all the revealed scriptures this is loudly declared again and again.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rendering service to these three substances leads to the supreme goal: ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
These three are a devotee’s foot dust, the water that has washed a devotee’s feet, and a devotee’s food remnants.
The verse says that all revealed scriptures loudly declare this teaching again and again.
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 Kavi-karṇapūra was only seven years old, he was initiated by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu into the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. He later became the greatest poet among the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love for krsna”, “ecstatic love”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”, “washed”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How would keeping ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa as your goal shape your attitude toward this service?
Before an opportunity to honor a devotee’s food remnants today, pause to remember the goal of love for Kṛṣṇa.
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