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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.46
শুকদেবের মন হরিল লীলা-শ্রবণে ॥ ৪৬ ॥
śukadevera mana harila līlā-śravaṇe
“Śukadeva’s mind was carried away by hearing the pastimes of the Lord.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śukadeva heard the pastimes of the Lord.
Hearing those pastimes carried his mind away in attraction.
The neighbouring verse explains that this attraction arose although he was already fully situated in the transcendental position.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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:
According to Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī’s request, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the well-known Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam verse beginning ātmārāmāś ca munayaḥ. He explained this verse in sixty-one different ways.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How attentively do you listen when hearing about the Lord?
Read the next verse aloud once, giving your full attention to Śukadeva’s attraction to the Lord’s pastimes.
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