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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.118
এবে সে জানিলুঁ সাধ্য-সাধন-নির্ণয় ।
আগে আর আছে কিছু, শুনিতে মন হয় ॥ ১১৮ ॥
ebe se jāniluṅ sādhya-sādhana-nirṇaya
āge āra āche kichu, śunite mana haya
“Now I have come to understand the sublime goal of life and the process of achieving it. Nevertheless, I think that there is something more ahead, and My mind is desiring to have it.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker says that He has come to understand the sublime goal of life.
He also understands the process of achieving that goal.
Nevertheless, He feels that there is something more ahead and desires to have it.
Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 8 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 questioned him on the object and process of worship and also asked him to recite verses from the Vedic literature. First of all, Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya enunciated the system of the varṇāśrama institution.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Does what you have understood awaken a desire to learn more?
Write down one thing you wish to understand more deeply about the goal of life or the process of achieving it.
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