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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.19
“সর্বশক্তি নামে দিলা করিয়া বিভাগ ।
আমার দুর্দৈব, — নামে নাহি অনুরাগ !!” ১৯ ।। ॥ ১৯ ॥
“sarva-śakti nāme dilā kariyā vibhāga
āmāra durdaiva, — nāme nāhi anurāga!!”
“You have invested Your full potencies in each individual holy name, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attachment for chanting Your holy names.”
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Full divine potencies have been invested in each individual holy name.
The speaker laments having no attachment for chanting these holy names.
The lack is not in the holy name’s potency. The lament concerns one’s own lack of attachment to chanting.
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:
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “holy name”
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: “laments”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How honestly can I acknowledge my present attachment, or lack of attachment, to chanting?
Chant the holy name for one minute, then offer a simple prayer for attachment to chanting.
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