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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.131
ঘরে গিয়া সব লোক করয়ে কীর্তন ।
কাজীর ভয়ে স্বচ্ছন্দ নহে, চমকিত মন ॥ ১৩১ ॥
ghare giyā saba loka karaye kīrtana
kājīra bhaye svacchanda nahe, camakita mana
Returning home, all the citizens began performing saṅkīrtana, but because of the order of the Kazi, they were not carefree but always full of anxiety.
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All the citizens returned home and began performing saṅkīrtana.
The Kazi’s order still weighed upon them.
They continued chanting, but they were not carefree; they remained full of anxiety.
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: “saṅkīrtana”, “chanting”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I continue chanting even when anxiety has not gone away?
Spend a few minutes chanting today without waiting to feel completely free from anxiety.
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