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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.214
শ্ৰীমুখ-সুন্দরকান্তি বাঢ়ে ক্ষণে ক্ষণে ।
কোটিভক্ত-নেত্র-ভৃঙ্গ করে মধুপানে ॥ ২১৪ ॥
śrī-mukha-sundara-kānti bāḍhe kṣaṇe kṣaṇe
koṭi-bhakta-netra-bhṛṅga kare madhu-pāne
The luster of His beautiful face increased at every moment, and the eyes of hundreds and thousands of devotees drank its honey like bumblebees.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The luster of the Lord’s beautiful face increased at every moment.
Hundreds and thousands of devotees gazed upon His face.
Their eyes were like bumblebees drinking the honey of His beauty.
Purification through joyful service. Collective cleansing becomes a visible devotional act before Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 12 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took great pleasure when He saw the Jagannātha Deity after the period of the Deity’s retirement. At that time Lord Caitanya was accompanied by all the devotees, and all of them were very pleased.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 12
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What strikes me about the devotees’ eyes being compared to bumblebees drinking honey?
Read this description twice today, giving full attention to the Lord’s ever-increasing beauty.
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