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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 20.86
সংক্ষেপে কহিলুঁ, বিস্তার না যায় কথনে ।
বিস্তারিয়া বেদব্যাস করিব বর্ণনে ॥ ৮৬ ॥
saṅkṣepe kahiluṅ, vistāra nā yāya kathane
vistāriyā veda-vyāsa kariba varṇane
I have described the pastimes very briefly, for it is impossible for me to describe them in full. In the future, however, Vedavyāsa will describe them elaborately.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author says that he has described the pastimes very briefly.
He acknowledges that it is impossible for him to describe them in full.
He states that Vedavyāsa will describe these pastimes elaborately in the future.
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.
What can I learn from the author’s honest acknowledgment of his limits?
Read the translation slowly, noticing both the author’s humility and his confidence in a future fuller account.
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