Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya 1.11

āmi jarā-grasta, nikaṭe jāniyā maraṇa

antya kono kono līlā kariyāchi varṇana

SYNONYMS

āmi jarā-grasta — I am invalid because of old age; nikaṭe — very near; jāniyā — knowing; maraṇa — death; antya — final; kono kono — some; līlā — pastimes; kariyāchi varṇana — I have described.

TRANSLATION

I am now almost an invalid because of old age, and I know that at any moment I may die. Therefore I have already described some portions of the antya-līlā.

PURPORT

Following in the footsteps of Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, I am trying to translate Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as quickly as possible. However, knowing myself to be an old man and almost an invalid because of rheumatism, I have already translated the essence of all literatures, the Tenth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, as a summary study in English. I started the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement at the age of seventy. Now I am seventy-eight, and so my death is imminent. I am trying to finish the translation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as soon as possible, but before finishing it, I have given my readers the book Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so that if I die before finishing the whole task, they may enjoy this book, which is the essence of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

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