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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.146
কাজী কহে—তুমি আইস ক্রুদ্ধ হইয়া ।
তোমা শান্ত করাইতে রহিনু লুকাইয়া ॥ ১৪৬ ৷৷
kājī kahe — tumi āisa kruddha ha-iyā
tomā śānta karāite rahinu lukāiyā
The Kazi replied, “You have come to my house in a very angry mood. To pacify You, I did not come before You immediately but kept myself hidden.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Kazi said that the Lord had come to his house in a very angry mood.
He explained that he had not appeared before the Lord immediately.
According to the Kazi, he had kept himself hidden in order to pacify the Lord.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When a meeting is delayed, are you willing to hear the other person’s explanation?
In a tense interaction today, let the other person explain their actions before you respond.
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