Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Antya-lila Chapter 20 Verse 154

Antya-līlā | Chapter 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya 20.154

caritam amṛtam etac chrīla-caitanya-viṣṇoḥ

śubha-dam aśubha-nāśi śraddhayāsvādayed yaḥ

tad-amala-pada-padme bhṛńgatām etya so 'yaḿ

rasayati rasam uccaiḥ prema-mādhvīka-pūram

SYNONYMS

caritam — the character and activities; amṛtam — nectarean; etat — this; śrīla — most opulent; caitanya — Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; viṣṇoḥ — of Him who is Lord Viṣṇu Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; śubha-dam — giving auspiciousness; aśubha-nāśi — destroying all inauspiciousness; śraddhayā — with faith and love; āsvādayet — should taste; yaḥ — anyone who; tat-amala-pada-padme — at the spotless lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; bhṛńgatām etya — becoming like a bumblebee; saḥ — that person; ayam — this; rasayati — tastes; rasam — transcendental mellow; uccaiḥ — a large quantity; prema-mādhvīka — of the wine of ecstatic love; pūram — full.

TRANSLATION

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is filled with the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. It invokes all good fortune and destroys everything inauspicious. If one tastes the nectar of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta with faith and love, I become like a bumblebee tasting the honey of transcendental love from his lotus feet.

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