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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Antya-līlā, Ch. 5]
TRANSLATION
“‘A transcendentally sober person who, with faith and love continuously hears from a realized soul about the activities of Lord Kṛṣṇa in His rāsa dance with the gopīs, or one who describes such activities, can attain full transcendental devotional service at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of God-head. Thus lusty material desires, which are the heart disease of all materialistic persons, are for him quickly and completely vanquished.’
PURPORT
All the activities of Lord Kṛṣṇa are transcendental, and the gopīs are also transcendentally situated. Therefore the activities of the gopīs and Lord Kṛṣṇa, if seriously understood, will certainly free one from material attachment. Then there is no possibility that lusty material desires will awaken.
TEXTS 49-50
যে শুনে, যে পড়ে, তাঁর ফল এতাদৃশী । সেই ভাবাবিষ্ট যেই সেবে অহর্নিশি ॥ ৪৯ ॥ তাঁর ফল কি কহিমু, কহনে না যায় । নিত্যসিদ্ধ সেই, প্রায়-সিদ্ধ তাঁর কায় ॥ ৫০ ॥
ye śune, ye paḍe, tāṅra phala etādṛśī sei bhāvāviṣṭa yei seve ahar-niśi
tāṅra phala ki kahimu, kahane nā yāya nitya-siddha sei, prāya-siddha tāṅra kāya
SYNONYMS
ye śune—anyone who hears; ye paḍe—anyone who recites; tāṅra—of him; phala—the result; etādṛśī—this; sei—he; bhāvāviṣṭa—always absorbed in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa; yei seve—who serves; ahaḥ-niśi—day and night; tāṅra—his; phala—result; ki kahimu—what shall I say; kahane nā yāya—it is impossible to express; nitya-siddha—eternally liberated; sei—such a person; prāya-siddha—transcendental; tāṅra—his; kāya—body.
TRANSLATION
“If a transcendentally situated person, following in the footsteps of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, hears and speaks about the rāsa-līlā dance of Kṛṣṇa and is always absorbed in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa while serving the Lord day and night within his mind, what shall I say about the result? It is so spiritually exalted that it