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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 20.137
বসন্ত-রজনীতে পুষ্পোদ্যানে বিহরণ ।
কৃষ্ণের সৌরভ্য-শ্লোকের অর্থ-বিবরণ ॥ ১৩৭ ॥
vasanta-rajanīte puṣpodyāne viharaṇa
kṛṣṇera saurabhya-ślokera artha-vivaraṇa
That chapter also describes Kṛṣṇa’s wandering in a garden on a spring night, and it fully describes the meaning of a verse about the scent of Kṛṣṇa’s body.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The nineteenth chapter also describes Kṛṣṇa’s wandering in a garden.
This wandering takes place on a spring night.
The chapter fully describes the meaning of a verse about the scent of Kṛṣṇa’s body.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Altogether the Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-eight years. After hinting about the Lord’s disappearance, the author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta gives a short description of the entire Antya-līlā and then ends his book.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I giving attention both to the description of the pastime and to its meaning?
Note the three details given here: the garden, the spring night, and the scent of Kṛṣṇa’s body.
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