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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.165
তোমরা জীয়াইতে নার—বধমাত্র সার ।
নরক হইতে তোমার নাহিক নিস্তার ॥ ১৬৫ ॥
tomarā jīyāite nāra, — vadha-mātra sāra
naraka ha-ite tomāra nāhika nistāra
“Since you Muslims cannot bring killed cows back to life, you are responsible for killing them. Therefore you are going to hell; there is no way for your deliverance.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Muslims addressed here cannot bring killed cows back to life.
The statement therefore holds them responsible for killing the cows.
The verse warns of hell as the consequence and declares that there is no way for their deliverance.
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:
Therefore the son of Śacī is the son of Yaśodā. Śrī Nityānanda occupies an ecstatic position of parental love in servitude and fraternal attraction.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.
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In this verse: “deliverance”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the inability to restore a cow’s life deepen my sense of responsibility toward it?
Take a moment today to reflect on the seriousness of taking a life that you cannot restore.
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