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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.79
রাত্রি-দিনে স্ফুরে কৃষ্ণের রূপ-গন্ধ-রস ।
সাক্ষাদনুভবে, — যেন কৃষ্ণ-উপস্পর্শ ॥ ৭৯ ॥
rātri-dine sphure kṛṣṇera rūpa-gandha-rasa
sākṣād-anubhave, — yena kṛṣṇa-upasparśa
Throughout the entire day and night, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu directly relished Kṛṣṇa’s beauty, fragrance and taste as if He were touching Kṛṣṇa hand to hand.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu directly relished Kṛṣṇa throughout the entire day and night.
He relished Kṛṣṇa’s beauty, fragrance and taste.
His experience was described as being as direct as touching Kṛṣṇa hand to hand.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the image of touching Kṛṣṇa hand to hand convey the closeness of this experience?
Read the verse slowly, pausing over the words “beauty, fragrance and taste.”
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