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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 4.238
চৈতন্যচরিত্র এই — ইক্ষুদণ্ড-সম ।
চর্বণ করিতে হয় রস-আস্বাদন ॥ ২৩৮ ॥
caitanya-caritra ei — ikṣu-daṇḍa-sama
carvaṇa karite haya rasa-āsvādana
These characteristics of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are like sugar cane that one can chew to relish transcendental juice.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The characteristics of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are compared to sugar cane.
Just as chewing sugar cane releases its juice, dwelling on these characteristics offers spiritual sweetness.
The juice to be relished is transcendental. The comparison invites us to savor the account rather than hurry through it.
Despair met with care. Sanātana’s wish to die is interrupted by the Lord’s protective insistence on his future service.
The mood of Antya 4 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 completely retired and returned to Vṛndāvana to meet Sanātana Gosvāmī. After narrating these incidents, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has given a list of the main books of Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Jīva Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What helps you linger over Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s characteristics rather than rush past them?
Spend one quiet minute rereading this verse and reflecting on its sugar cane comparison.
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