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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.141
এক এক পরিচ্ছেদের কথা — অনেক প্রকার ।
মুখ্য-মুখ্য কহিলুঁ, কথা না যায় বিস্তার ॥ ১৪১ ॥
eka eka paricchedera kathā — aneka-prakāra
mukhya-mukhya kahiluṅ, kathā nā yāya vistāra
In every chapter there are various topics, but I have repeated only those that are principal, for not all of them could be described again.
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Every chapter contains various topics.
Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī repeats only the principal topics in his review.
Not every topic could be described again. The review therefore gathers the main teachings rather than every detail.
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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