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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.160
জিয়াইতে পারে যদি, তবে মারে প্রাণী ।
বেদ–পুরাণে আছে হেন আজ্ঞা–বাণী ॥ ১৬০ ॥
jiyāite pāre yadi, tabe māre prāṇī
veda-purāṇe āche hena ājñā-vāṇī
“In the Vedas and Purāṇas there are injunctions declaring that if one can revive a living being, one can kill it for experimental purposes.
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The Lord refers to injunctions in the Vedas and Purāṇas.
These injunctions describe killing a living being for experimental purposes.
The permission depends on the ability to revive that living being; it is not an unconditional allowance.
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:
Among all the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī has the highest ecstatic love. When Kṛṣṇa in His form of Nārāyaṇa saw Rādhārāṇī, He could not keep His position as Nārāyaṇa and again assumed the form of Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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