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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.139
ভক্তে শিখাইতে যেই শিক্ষাষ্টক কহিলা ।
সেই শ্লোকাষ্টকের অর্থ পুনঃ আস্বাদিলা ॥ ১৩৯ ॥
bhakte śikhāite yei śikṣāṣṭaka kahilā
sei ślokāṣṭakera artha punaḥ āsvādilā
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu composed those eight stanzas to instruct the devotees, but He also personally tasted their meaning.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu composed the eight stanzas.
He composed them to instruct the devotees.
He also personally tasted their meaning. The stanzas were both His teaching and something He Himself relished.
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
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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.
What stands out to me about His personally tasting the instructions He gave devotees?
Write down the two aspects emphasized here: instructing devotees and personally tasting the meaning.
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