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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 19: The Inconceivable Behavior of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Antya 19.109 Antya 19.111

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.110

শ্রদ্ধা করি, শুন ইহা, শুনিতে মহাসুখ ।

খণ্ডিবে আধ্যাত্মিকাদি কুতর্কাদি-দুঃখ ॥ ১১০ ॥

śraddhā kari, śuna ihā, śunite mahā-sukha

khaṇḍibe ādhyātmikādi kutarkādi-duḥkha

Translation

Just try to hear these topics with faith, for there is great pleasure even in hearing them. That hearing will destroy all miseries pertaining to the body, mind and other living entities, and the unhappiness of false arguments as well.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Faithful Hearing Brings Pleasure and Relief

1
The reader is urged to hear these topics with faith.
2
There is great pleasure even in hearing them.
3
Such hearing destroys miseries pertaining to the body, mind and other living entities. It also removes the unhappiness of false arguments.

How it feels

Longing beyond ordinary categories. Extreme separation alternates with moments of visionary encounter.

The mood of Antya 19 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Antya 19: The Inconceivable Behavior of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

This chapter further describes how Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu entered the Jagannātha-vallabha garden during the full-moon night of Vaiśākha (April-May) and experienced various transcendental ecstasies. Overwhelmed with ecstatic love at suddenly seeing Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa beneath an aśoka tree, He exhibited various symptoms of spiritual madness.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

śraddhā kariwith great faith
śunahear
ihāall these topics
śuniteeven to hear
mahā-sukhagreat pleasure
khaṇḍibeit will destroy
ādhyātmika-ādiall distresses due to the body, mind and so on
kutarka-ādi-duḥkhaand the miserable conditions arising from the use of false arguments

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What would it mean for me to hear these topics with faith rather than become caught in false arguments?

Practice

Spend two quiet minutes hearing these translations read aloud, giving them your full attention.

Live this todayFaithful Hearing Brings Pleasure and ReliefThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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