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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.72
শুনি শিবানন্দের চিত্তে হইল সংশয় ।
কিবা প্রেমাবেশে কহে, — কিবা সত্য হয় ॥ ৭২ ॥
śuni śivānandera citte ha-ila saṁśaya
kibā premāveśe kahe, kibā satya haya
When Śivānanda Sena heard this statement, he was unsure whether Nṛsiṁhānanda Brahmacārī was speaking that way because of ecstatic love or because it was actually a fact.
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Śivānanda Sena heard Nṛsiṁhānanda Brahmacārī’s statement about the offerings.
He was unsure whether Nṛsiṁhānanda was speaking that way because of ecstatic love or because it was actually a fact.
The verse describes Śivānanda’s uncertainty without presenting it as a settled judgment.
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:
Thus he described the glories of Nṛsiṁhānanda and other devotees. A devotee named Bhagavān Ācārya was exceptionally faithful to the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I acknowledge uncertainty when I do not understand a devotee’s experience?
Write down one devotional matter you do not yet understand, without forcing a conclusion.
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