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| Antya-līlā | Chapter 20: The Śikshāshtaka Prayers |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Antya 20 Summary
The following summary of the Twentieth Chapter is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thākura in his Amrita-pravāha-bhāshya. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed His nights tasting the meaning of the Śikshāshtaka prayers in the company of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya. Sometimes He recited verses from Jayadeva Gosvāmī's Gīta-govinda, from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, from Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya's Jagannātha-vallabha-nātaka or from Śrī Bilvamańgala Thākura's Krishna-karnāmrita. In this way, He became absorbed in ecstatic emotions. For the twelve years Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lived at Jagannātha Purī, He relished the taste of reciting such transcendental verses. Altogether the Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-eight years. After hinting about the Lord's disappearance, the author of the Caitanya-caritāmrita gives a short description of the entire Antya-līlā and then ends his book.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness