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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.71
জীব ক্ষুদ্রবুদ্ধি কোন্ তাহা পারে বর্ণিতে ? তার এক কণা স্পর্শি আপনা শোধিতে ॥ ৭১ ॥
jīva kṣudra-buddhi kon tāhā pāre varṇite?
tāra eka kaṇā sparśi āpanā śodhite
How, then, could an ordinary living being with very little intelligence describe such pastimes? Nevertheless, I am trying to touch but a particle of them just to rectify myself.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author asks how an ordinary living being with very little intelligence could describe such pastimes.
Nevertheless, he tries to touch just a particle of them.
His purpose in making this attempt is to rectify himself.
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:
In this way, He became absorbed in ecstatic emotions. For the twelve years Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lived at Jagannātha Purī, He relished the taste of reciting such transcendental verses.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can your study become an opportunity to rectify yourself rather than display knowledge?
Write one sentence about a pastime described in this batch, keeping self-rectification as your purpose.
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