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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers
Antya 20.153Antya 20.155

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.154

চরিতমমৃতমেতচ্ছ্রীলচৈতন্যবিষ্ণোঃ শুভদমশুভনাশি শ্রদ্ধয়াস্বাদয়েদ্যঃ ।

তদমলপদপদ্মে ভৃঙ্গতামেত্য সোঽয়ং রসয়তি রসমুচ্চৈঃ প্রেমমাধ্বীকপূরম্ ॥ ১৫৪ ॥

caritam amṛtam etac chrīla-caitanya-viṣṇoḥ

śubha-dam aśubha-nāśi śraddhayāsvādayed yaḥ

tad-amala-pada-padme bhṛṅgatām etya so ’yaṁ

rasayati rasam uccaiḥ prema-mādhvīka-pūram

Translation

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is filled with the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. It invokes all good fortune and destroys everything inauspicious. If one tastes the nectar of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta with faith and love, I become like a bumblebee tasting the honey of transcendental love from his lotus feet.

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

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Taste This Nectar with Faith and Love

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is filled with the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.

  2. 2

    The book invokes all good fortune and destroys everything inauspicious.

  3. 3

    When someone tastes its nectar with faith and love, the author becomes like a bumblebee tasting the honey of transcendental love from that reader’s lotus feet.

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

Further reading

Antya 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. caritamthe character and activities
  2. amṛtamnectarean
  3. etatthis
  4. śrīlamost opulent
  5. caitanyaLord Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  6. viṣṇoḥof Him who is Lord Viṣṇu Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  7. śubha-damgiving auspiciousness
  8. aśubha-nāśidestroying all inauspiciousness
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Key ideas in this 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: “love”

  • Śaraṇāgati · Taking shelter

    Turning toward Kṛṣṇa through shelter, surrender, dependence on guru, and unconditional devotional fidelity. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “lotus feet”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What would it mean for me to read with faith and love rather than simply gather information?

Practice

Read this translation slowly today, remembering that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.

Live this todayTaste This Nectar with Faith and LoveThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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