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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 Madhya 1.75
এসব কহিব আগে বিস্তার করিঞা ।
সংক্ষেপে উদ্দেশ কৈল প্রস্তাব পাইঞা ॥ ৭৫ ॥
e-saba kahiba āge vistāra kariñā
saṅkṣepe uddeśa kaila prastāva pāiñā
I shall describe all these incidents elaborately later on. Now I have given only a brief reference.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The author has given only a brief reference to these incidents.
He promises to describe all these incidents elaborately later.
The present account is a summary, not the full description.
Anticipation and hidden longing. The author previews later pastimes, including the inner Vraja mood expressed at Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 1 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:
All of these are described in brief. There is also a description of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstasy that occurred when He recited the verse beginning yaḥ kaumāra-haraḥ, as well as a description of how that ecstasy was explained in the verse beginning priyaḥ so ’yaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ, by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 1
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I receive this brief account patiently, knowing that fuller descriptions will follow?
Read the translation once more and notice the distinction between the brief reference and the promised detailed account.
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