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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.6
আশ্চর্য শুনিয়া মোর উৎকণ্ঠিত মন ।
কৃপা করি’ কহ যদি, জুড়ায় শ্রবণ ॥’ ৬ ॥
āścarya śuniyā mora utkaṇṭhita mana
kṛpā kari’ kaha yadi, juḍāya śravaṇa’
“I have heard this wonderful story and am therefore very inquisitive to hear Your explanation again. If You would kindly repeat it, I would be very pleased to hear.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Hearing the wonderful story awakened eagerness to hear the explanation again.
The request to repeat the explanation is made courteously: “If You would kindly repeat it.”
The speaker expresses that hearing it again would bring great pleasure.
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:
The following summary of this chapter is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. According to Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī’s request, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the well-known Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam verse beginning ātmārāmāś ca munayaḥ.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.
Which teaching would you be pleased to hear explained again?
Return to one explanation you have already read and read it again with fresh curiosity.
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