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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.125
ক্রোধে সন্ধ্যাকালে কাজী এক ঘরে আইল ।
মৃদঙ্গ ভাঙ্গিয়া লোকে কহিতে লাগিল ॥ ১২৫ ॥
krodhe sandhyā-kāle kājī eka ghare āila
mṛdaṅga bhāṅgiyā loke kahite lāgila
Chand Kazi angrily came to one home in the evening, and when he saw kīrtana going on, he broke a mṛdaṅga and spoke as follows.
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Chand Kazi came angrily to a home in the evening.
He saw that kīrtana was taking place there.
He broke a mṛdaṅga and then began to speak.
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:
In this chapter we shall find descriptions of the mango distribution festival and Lord Caitanya’s discourses with Chand Kazi. Finally, the chapter shows that the same son of mother Yaśodā, Lord Kṛṣṇa, tasted four transcendental mellows of devotional service in His form of Śacīnandana, the son of mother Śacī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “kīrtana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the breaking of the mṛdaṅga show me about the anger directed toward this kīrtana?
Pause before speaking when you feel angry today, remembering the harm shown in this scene.
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