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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.75
অতএব সেইসব লীলা না পারি বর্ণিবারে ।
সমাপ্তি করিলুঁ লীলাকে করি’ নমস্কারে ॥ ৭৫ ॥
ataeva sei-saba līlā nā pāri varṇibāre
samāpti kariluṅ līlāke kari’ namaskāre
It is impossible to describe all the pastimes elaborately. I shall therefore end this description and offer them my respectful obeisances.
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It is impossible to describe all the pastimes elaborately.
The author therefore brings his description to an end rather than claiming to have told everything.
He closes by offering respectful obeisances to those pastimes.
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
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What can you learn from the author’s respectful way of ending an incomplete description?
At the end of today’s reading, pause and offer respectful obeisances to the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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