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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.134
সন্ধ্যাতে দেউটি সবে জ্বাল ঘরে ঘরে ।
দেখ, কোন কাজী আসি’ মোরে মানা করে ॥ ১৩৪ ॥
sandhyāte deuṭi sabe jvāla ghare ghare
dekha, kona kājī āsi’ more mānā kare
“In the evening, burn torchlights in every home. I shall give protection to everyone. Let us see what kind of Kazi comes to stop our kīrtana.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord asked that torchlights be burned in every home in the evening.
He promised, “I shall give protection to everyone.”
He challenged the possibility that any Kazi could come and stop their kīrtana.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Audārya · Love that moves outward
The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “to everyone”
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.
How does the Lord’s promise of protection shape your reading of His call to kīrtana?
Before chanting today, reread the Lord’s words: “I shall give protection to everyone.”
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