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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 12.215
যত পিয়ে তত তৃষ্ণা বাঢ়ে নিরন্তর ।
মুখাম্বুজ ছাড়ি’ নেত্র না যায় অন্তর ॥ ২১৫ ॥
yata piye tata tṛṣṇā bāḍhe nirantara
mukhāmbuja chāḍi’ netra nā yāya antara
As their eyes began to drink the nectarean honey of His lotus face, their thirst increased. Thus their eyes did not leave Him.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The devotees’ eyes drank the nectarean honey of the Lord’s lotus face.
As they looked, their thirst increased rather than diminished.
Their eyes did not leave Him. The purport introduces Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s description of the Lord’s beauty in the Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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.
How does the devotees’ increasing thirst deepen my understanding of their attraction to the Lord?
Pause today over the words “their thirst increased,” and reflect on the devotees’ desire to keep seeing Him.
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