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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 20.81
যাবৎ বুদ্ধির গতি, ততেক বর্ণিলুঁ ।
সমুদ্রের মধ্যে যেন এক কণ ছুঁইলুঁ ॥ ৮১ ॥
yāvat buddhira gati, tateka varṇiluṅ
samudrera madhye yena eka kaṇa chuṅiluṅ
I have tried to describe them as far as my intelligence allows, as if trying to touch a drop in the midst of a great ocean.
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The author has tried to describe the pastimes as far as his intelligence allows.
He compares his effort to trying to touch a drop in the midst of a great ocean.
His words combine sincere effort with a humble recognition of how little he can describe.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “humble”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you bring both sincere effort and humility to your reading?
Write one sentence about what you understood today, while acknowledging that there is much more to understand.
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