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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.63
তিন হৈতে কৃষ্ণনাম-প্রেমের উল্লাস ।
কৃষ্ণের প্রসাদ, তাতে ‘সাক্ষী’ কালিদাস ॥ ৬৩ ॥
tina haite kṛṣṇa-nāma-premera ullāsa
kṛṣṇera prasāda, tāte ‘sākṣī’ kālidāsa
From these three one achieves the highest goal of life — ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. This is the greatest mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The evidence is Kālidāsa himself.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
From these three substances one achieves the highest goal of life: ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.
The verse identifies this gift as the greatest mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Kālidāsa himself is presented as evidence of this teaching.
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:
He later became the greatest poet among the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ate the remnants of food known as vallabha-bhoga, He described the glories of such remnants of the Lord’s food and then fed all the devotees the prasādam.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
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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 of krsna”, “ecstatic love”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mercy”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this verse teach you about the highest gift of Kṛṣṇa’s mercy?
Write one sentence today naming ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa as the highest goal described here.
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