CHAPTER 20
The Siksastaka Prayers
The following summary study of the Twentieth Chapter is given by Srila Bhakti-
vinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu passed His
nights tasting the meaning of Siksdstaka in the company of Svaripa Damodara
Gosvami and Ramananda Raya. Sometimes He recited verses from Jayadeva
Gosvami's Gita-govinda, from Srimad-Bhagavatam, from Sri Ramananda Raya’s
Jagannatha-vallabha-nataka or from Sri Bilvamangala Thakura’s Krsna-karnamrta. In
this way, He became absorbed in ecstatic emotions. For the twelve years Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu lived at Jagannatha Puri, He relished the taste of reciting
such transcendental verses. The Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-
eight years altogether. After hinting about the Lord's disappearance, the author of
Caitanya-caritamrta gives a short description of the entire Antya-lila and then
ends his book.
TEXT 1
corcmiwifasertcnicastratts fafarey |
aftes chapeny Stitaferacaacs is i
premodbhavita-harsersyod-
vega-dainyadrti-misritam
lapitamn gauracandrasya
bhdagyavadbhir nisevyate
SYNONYMS
prema-udbhavita—produced from ecstatic love and emotion; harsa—jubila-
tion; irsyi—envy; udvega—agitation; dainya—submissiveness; arti—grief;
misritam—mixed with; /apitam—talks like those of a crazy man; gaura-
candrasya—of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhagyavadbhih—by the most fortu-
nate; nisevyate—is enjoyable.
TRANSLATION
Only the most fortunate will relish the mad words of Sri Caitanya
Mahdaprabhu, which mixed with jubilation, envy, agitation, submissiveness
and grief, all produced by ecstatic loving emotions.
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