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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.65
প্রভুর ‘শিক্ষাষ্টক’-শ্লোক যেই পড়ে, শুনে ।
কৃষ্ণে প্রেমভক্তি তার বাড়ে দিনে-দিনে ॥ ৬৫ ॥
prabhura ‘śikṣāṣṭaka’-śloka yei paḍe, śune
kṛṣṇe prema-bhakti tāra bāḍe dine-dine
If anyone recites or hears these eight verses of instruction by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, his ecstatic love and devotion for Kṛṣṇa increase day by day.
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These eight verses are instructions given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Anyone may receive their benefit by reciting or hearing them.
Through this recitation or hearing, ecstatic love and devotion for Kṛṣṇa increase day by day.
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.
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: “ecstatic love”
Śikṣāṣṭaka · The eightfold inner culmination
Eight prayers that lead from glorifying the holy name through humility and selfless love to unconditional attachment to Kṛṣṇa. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “eight verses”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you make room for regularly hearing these eight verses?
Today, recite or listen to the eight verses of instruction.
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