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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 20.40
উদ্বেগে দিবস না যায়, ‘ক্ষণ’ হৈল ‘যুগ’-সম ।
বর্ষার মেঘপ্রায় অশ্রু বরিষে নয়ন ॥ ৪০ ॥
udvege divasa nā yāya, ‘kṣaṇa’ haila ‘yuga’-sama
varṣāra megha-prāya aśru variṣe nayana
“In My agitation, a day never ends, for every moment seems like a millennium. Pouring incessant tears, My eyes are like clouds in the rainy season.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
In the agitation of separation, a day seems never to end.
Every moment feels like a millennium, conveying the intensity of the longing.
Incessant tears make the speaker’s eyes like clouds pouring rain in the rainy season.
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:
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. In this way, He became absorbed in ecstatic emotions.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.
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: “separation”, “longing”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do the images of endless time and pouring rain deepen your understanding of this longing?
Read this verse slowly today and reflect for a moment on its image of eyes like rainy-season clouds.
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