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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.102

এবে অন্ত্যলীলাগণের করি অনুবাদ ।

‘অনুবাদ’ কৈলে পাই লীলার ‘আস্বাদ’ ॥ ১০২ ॥

ebe antya-līlā-gaṇera kari anuvāda

‘anuvāda’ kaile pāi līlāra ‘āsvāda’

Translation

Now let me repeat all the pastimes of the Antya-līlā, for if I do so I shall taste the pastimes again.

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

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Repeating the Pastimes Renews Their Taste

  1. 1

    The author now wishes to repeat all the pastimes of the Antya-līlā.

  2. 2

    His purpose is to taste those pastimes again through retelling them.

  3. 3

    The summaries that follow revisit meetings, teachings, and gifts of the holy name.

How it feels

Unconditional devotion. Eight prayers move from cleansing the heart to love that endures even without reciprocation.

The mood of Antya 20 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers

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

For the twelve years Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lived at Jagannātha Purī, He relished the taste of reciting such transcendental verses. Altogether the Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-eight years.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. ebenow
  2. antya-līlā-gaṇera kari anuvādaI beg to repeat all the facts of this Antya-līlā
  3. anuvāda kaileif it is repeated
  4. pāiI get
  5. līlāraof the pastime
  6. āsvādataste
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together

    Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “holy name”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How might revisiting a passage help me appreciate it more deeply?

Practice

Reread one translation from this batch slowly, noticing what you appreciate on a second reading.

Live this todayRepeating the Pastimes Renews Their TasteThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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