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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.115
এক দিন প্রভু বিষ্ণুমণ্ডপে বসিয়া ।
‘মধু আন’, ‘মধু আন’ বলেন ডাকিয়া ॥ ১১৫ ॥
eka dina prabhu viṣṇu-maṇḍape vasiyā
‘madhu āna’, ‘madhu āna’ balena ḍākiyā
One day the Lord sat down in the corridor of a Viṣṇu temple and began calling very loudly, “Bring some honey! Bring some honey!”
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One day the Lord sits down in the corridor of a Viṣṇu temple.
He begins calling very loudly.
He repeats His request: “Bring some honey! Bring some honey!”
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
No one else could do this. When Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of the four-armed Nārāyaṇa, the gopīs showed their respect, but they were not very interested in Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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Read the translation carefully and recall its three details: the place, the loud call, and the repeated request.
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