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Šri Caitanya  caritāmrtā
Мадһуа-ліла Сһ 11
SYNONYMS
śuni' —hearing;  śivānanda-sena —Śivānanda Sena;  prema-āviṣṭa hañā —becoming absorbed in pure love;  daṇḍavat hañā —offering obeisances;  paḍe —falls down;  śloka —a verse;  padiyā —reciting.
TRANSLATION
Immediately upon hearing this, Śivānanda Sena became absorbed in ecstatic love and fell down on the ground, offering obeisances to the Lord. He then began to recite the following verse.
TEXT 1511
নিমজ্জতোৎনন্ত ভবার্ণবাস্তুচিরায় মে কুলমিবাসি লব্ধः । 
স্বয়াপি লব্ধং ভগবদ্নিদানীমন্ত্রভ্রমং পাত্রমিদ্দং দয়ায়াः ॥১৫১॥
nimajjato ‘nanta bhavārṇavāntaś cirāya me kūlam ivāsi labdhaḥ tvayāpi labdhaṁ bhagavann idānīm anuttamaṁ pātram idaṁ dayāyāḥ
SYNONYMS
nimajjataḥ —being immersed;  ananta —O unlimited one;  bhava-arṇava-antaḥ —within the ocean of nescience;  cirāya —after a long time;  me —of me;  kūlam —the shore;  iva —like;  asi —You are;  labdhaḥ —obtained;  tvayā —by You;  api —also;  labdham —has been gained;  bhagavan —O my Lord;  idānīm —now;  anuttamam —the best;  pātram —candidate;  idam —this;  dayāyāḥ —for showing Your mercy.
TRANSLATION
“O my Lord! O unlimited one! Although I was merged in the ocean of nescience, I have now, after a long time, attained You, just as one may attain the seashore. My dear Lord, by getting me, You have obtained the right person upon whom to bestow Your causeless mercy.”
PURPORT
This is a verse composed by Ālabandāru Yamunācārya. One's relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead may be reestablished even after one has fallen into the ocean of nescience, which is the ocean of material existence involving the repetition of birth, death, old age and disease, all arising out of the acceptance of the material body. There are 8,400,000 species of material life, but in the human body one attains a chance to get release from the repetition of birth and death. When one becomes the Lord's devotee, he is rescued from this