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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.170
মধুর চৈতন্যলীলা — সমুদ্র-গম্ভীর ।
লোকে নাহি বুঝে, বুঝে যেই ‘ভক্ত’ ‘ধীর’ ॥ ১৭০ ॥
madhura caitanya-līlā — samudra-gambhīra
loke nāhi bujhe, bujhe yei ‘bhakta’ ‘dhīra’
The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are like nectar, and they are deep like the ocean. People in general cannot understand them, but a sober devotee can.
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The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are compared to nectar.
They are also deep like the ocean, beyond the understanding of people in general.
A sober devotee can understand them. The verse joins devotional sweetness with the need for sober understanding.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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:
In his spiritual body, however, he continued to sing devotional songs, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard them. When the Vaiṣṇavas of Bengal went to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, these incidents became known to Svarūpa Dāmodara and others.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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