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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.23
বৃক্ষ যেন কাটিলেহ কিছু না বোলয় ।
শুকাঞা মৈলেহ কারে পানী না মাগয় ॥ ২৩ ॥
vṛkṣa yena kāṭileha kichu nā bolaya
śukāñā maileha kāre pānī nā māgaya
“When a tree is cut down, it does not protest, and even when drying up, it does not ask anyone for water.
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When a tree is cut down, it does not protest.
Even when drying up, the tree does not ask anyone for water.
These two examples illustrate the tree-like tolerance described as a quality of one who chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “chants”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do I respond to small inconveniences: with patience or immediate complaint?
During one minor inconvenience today, pause before complaining and quietly chant the holy name.
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