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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers
Antya 20.93Antya 20.95

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.94

নানা-রোগগ্রস্ত, — চলিতে বসিতে না পারি ।

পঞ্চরোগ-পীড়া-ব্যাকুল, রাত্রি-দিনে মরি ॥ ৯৪ ॥

nānā-roga-grasta, — calite vasite nā pāri

pañca-roga-pīḍā-vyākula, rātri-dine mari

Translation

I am infected with so many diseases that I can neither properly walk nor properly sit. Indeed, I am always exhausted by five kinds of diseases. I may die at any time of the day or night.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Writing Amid Illness and Uncertainty

  1. 1

    The author's diseases prevent him from walking or sitting properly.

  2. 2

    He says that five kinds of diseases leave him always exhausted.

  3. 3

    He recognizes that he may die at any time of the day or night. This adds to his account of the difficulties surrounding his writing.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers

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.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. nānā-roga-grastainfected with so many diseases
  2. caliteto walk
  3. vasiteto sit down
  4. nā pāriI am not properly able
  5. pañca-roga-pīḍā-vyākulaalways disturbed by five kinds of disease
  6. rātri-dineday or night
  7. mariI can die any time
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does knowing his condition deepen your appreciation for what you are reading?

Practice

Read one passage from this batch attentively, remembering the exhaustion under which the author wrote.

Live this todayWriting Amid Illness and UncertaintyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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