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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 20.80
ঐছে মহাপ্রভুর লীলা — নাহি ওর-পার ।
‘জীব’ হঞা কেবা সম্যক্ পারে বর্ণিবার ? ৮০ ॥ ৮০ ॥
aiche mahāprabhura līlā — nāhi ora-pāra
‘jīva’ hañā kebā samyak pāre varṇibāra?
The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are like the unlimited sky. How, then, can an ordinary living being describe them all?
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are compared to the unlimited sky.
An ordinary living being cannot describe them all.
The comparison explains why the author’s account can offer an indication without exhausting its subject.
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:
For the twelve years Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lived at Jagannātha Purī, He relished the taste of reciting such transcendental verses. Altogether the Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-eight years.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 does the image of the unlimited sky change your expectations of this account?
Look at the sky briefly today and recall the verse’s comparison with the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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