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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.138
বিংশ-পরিচ্ছেদে — নিজ-‘শিক্ষাষ্টক’ পড়িয়া ।
তার অর্থ আস্বাদিলা প্রেমাবিষ্ট হঞা ॥ ১৩৮ ॥
viṁśa-paricchede — nija-‘śikṣāṣṭaka’ paḍiyā
tāra artha āsvādilā premāviṣṭa hañā
The twentieth chapter tells how Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited His own eight stanzas of instruction and tasted their meaning in ecstatic love.
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The twentieth chapter tells how Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited His own stanzas of instruction.
These instructions consist of eight stanzas.
He tasted their meaning in ecstatic love. His recitation included a deep experience of their meaning.
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “ecstatic love”
Śikṣāṣṭaka · The eightfold inner culmination
Eight prayers that lead from glorifying the holy name through humility and selfless love to unconditional attachment to Kṛṣṇa. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “eight stanzas”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When I read devotional instruction, do I pause to consider its meaning?
Read this translation aloud once, then pause over the phrase “tasted their meaning in ecstatic love.”
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