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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 19.111
চৈতন্যচরিতামৃত — নিত্য-নূতন ।
শুনিতে শুনিতে জুড়ায় হৃদয়-শ্রবণ ॥ ১১১ ॥
caitanya-caritāmṛta — nitya-nūtana
śunite śunite juḍāya hṛdaya-śravaṇa
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is ever-increasingly fresh. For one who hears it again and again, the heart and ear become pacified.
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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is ever-increasingly fresh.
The verse encourages hearing it again and again.
For one who hears repeatedly, both the heart and the ear become pacified.
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
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 19
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