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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.150
ভাগিনার ক্রোধ মামা অবশ্য সহয় ।
মাতুলের অপরাধ ভাগিনা না লয় ॥ ১৫০ ॥
bhāgināra krodha māmā avaśya sahaya
mātulera aparādha bhāginā nā laya
“When a nephew is very angry, his maternal uncle is tolerant, and when the maternal uncle commits an offense, the nephew does not take it very seriously.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
A maternal uncle is tolerant when his nephew is very angry.
When the maternal uncle commits an offense, the nephew does not take it very seriously.
The relationship allows room for both tolerance of anger and forgiveness of an offense.
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 the ecstatic love of the gopīs, all worshipable forms but Kṛṣṇa are rejected. Among all the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī has the highest ecstatic love.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.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “tolerant”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “relationship”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Where could I respond with tolerance rather than take an offense very seriously?
Let one small offense pass today without an angry reply.
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