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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 20.89
তাঁর ঝারী-শেষামৃত কিছু মোরে দিলা ।
ততেকে ভরিল পেট, তৃষ্ণা মোর গেলা ॥ ৮৯ ॥
tāṅra jhārī-śeṣāmṛta kichu more dilā
tateke bharila peṭa, tṛṣṇā mora gelā
Whatever remnants of milk Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has given me are sufficient to fill my belly. Now my thirst is completely satiated.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Continuing the image of milk, the author calls what he received from Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura “remnants.”
He says that this gift is sufficient to fill his belly.
His thirst is completely satisfied. His words express humble gratitude for what he has received.
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
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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.
Do I pause to appreciate what I have received through a devotee’s account?
After reading today, write one sentence of gratitude for the account of the Lord’s pastimes you have received.
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