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How to study this verse, in six steps

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

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers

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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.15

উঠিল বিষাদ, দৈন্য, — পড়ে আপন-শ্লোক ।

যাহার অর্থ শুনি’ সব যায় দুঃখ-শোক ॥ ১৫ ॥

uṭhila viṣāda, dainya, — paḍe āpana-śloka

yāhāra artha śuni’ saba yāya duḥkha-śoka

Translation

Lamentation and humility awoke within Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and He began reciting another of His own verses. By hearing the meaning of that verse, one can forget all unhappiness and lamentation.

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

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Hear With Humility

1
Lamentation and humility awoke within Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
2
He began reciting another of His own verses.
3
By hearing the meaning of that verse, one can forget all unhappiness and lamentation.

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

Antya 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers

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

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed His nights tasting the meaning of the Śikṣāṣṭaka prayers in the company of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya. Sometimes He recited verses from Jayadeva Gosvāmī’s Gīta-govinda, from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, from Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya’s Jagannātha-vallabha-nāṭaka or from Śrī Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura’s Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

uṭhila viṣādathere was awakening of lamentation
dainyahumility
paḍerecites
āpana-ślokaHis own verse
yāhāraof which
artha śuni’hearing the meaning
sabaall
yāyago away
duḥkha-śokaunhappiness and lamentation

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “humility”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “lamentation”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I willing to listen humbly to the meaning of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s words?

Practice

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