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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.7
কোন দিনে কোন ভাবে শ্লোক-পঠন ।
সেই শ্লোক আস্বাদিতে রাত্রি-জাগরণ ॥ ৭ ॥
kona dine kona bhāve śloka-paṭhana
sei śloka āsvādite rātri-jāgaraṇa
Sometimes the Lord would be absorbed in a particular emotion and would stay awake all night reciting related verses and relishing their taste.
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Sometimes the Lord became absorbed in a particular emotion.
He would recite verses related to that emotion and relish their taste.
At such times, His absorption continued through the whole night.
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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