not desire wealth, followers, beautiful women, nor the flowery language of the vedas; let me have only causeless devotion to you, birth after birth. Verse 5 Translation Literal: o son of nanda, servitor me fallen in venom of ocean of material existence, by your mercy (kripa) consider me as particle of dust at your lotus-feet. Verse 6 Translation Literal: With eyes flowing tear-streams, voice faltering, words choked, with ecstatic feelings in body, when shall i be able to chant your (divine) name? Verse 7 Translation Literal: moment comparable to yuga, eyes showering tears, empty appears whole world to me in separation of govinda Verse 8 Translation Literal: by embracing with enraptment or trampling with feet, or breaking my heart by not granting vision, or flirting here and there as destined, master of my life is he, verily no other. Extra verse This verse follows the 8 verses written by Chaitanya in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta: Translation If anyone recites or hears these eight verses of instruction by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, their ecstatic love and devotion (prema-bhakti) for Kṛṣṇa increases day by day. See also Hare Krishna Vrindavan Vaishnavism Svayam Bhagavan Radha Krishna Chaitanya Bhagavata References External links Sikshashtaka: Lord Chaitanya's Mission (vedabase.net) Shikshashtakam / शिक्षाष्टकं in English and Devanagari 16th-century poems Gaudiya Vaishnavism Hindu devotional texts Hindu texts Poetry about spirituality Sanskrit poetry 16th-century Indian literature