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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.133
নগরে নগরে আজি করিমু কীর্তন ।
সন্ধ্যাকালে কর সভে নগর–মণ্ডন ॥ ১৩৩ ॥
nagare nagare āji karimu kīrtana
sandhyā-kāle kara sabhe nagara-maṇḍana
“In the evening I shall perform saṅkīrtana in each and every town. Therefore you should all decorate the city in the evening.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Navadvīpa was composed of nine small cities at that time.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to perform kīrtana in each of these neighboring towns.
He ordered the city decorated for the evening saṅkīrtana.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”, “kīrtana”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How could preparing a space help you welcome kīrtana?
Make one small space clean and welcoming for chanting today.
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