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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.128
আর যদি কীর্তন করিতে লাগ পাইমু ।
সর্বস্ব দণ্ডিয়া তার জাতি যে লইমু ॥ ১২৮ ॥
āra yadi kīrtana karite lāga pāimu
sarvasva daṇḍiyā tāra jāti ye la-imu
“The next time I see someone performing such saṅkīrtana, I shall certainly chastise him by not only confiscating all his property but also converting him into a Muslim.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Kazi threatened anyone who continued saṅkīrtana with confiscation of all property and forced conversion to Islam.
The purport explains that sprinkling water on a Hindu’s body was then considered sufficient to make that person a Muslim. This was the process Chand Kazi threatened to use.
The purport describes Hindu society at that time as so rigid that a person considered converted had no chance of returning. Such social customs made the threat especially severe.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
When Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of the four-armed Nārāyaṇa, the gopīs showed their respect, but they were not very interested in Him. In the ecstatic love of the gopīs, all worshipable forms but Kṛṣṇa are rejected.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: “saṅkīrtana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this threat deepen my understanding of the devotees’ difficulty?
Take a moment today to reflect on the pressure of threatened loss of property and exclusion from one’s religious community.
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