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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.172
আর এক প্রশ্ন করি, শুন, তুমি মামা ।
যথার্থ কহিবে, ছলে না বঞ্চিবে আমা’ ॥ ১৭২ ॥
āra eka praśna kari, śuna, tumi māmā
yathārtha kahibe, chale nā vañchibe āmā’
“My dear maternal uncle, I wish to ask you another question. Please tell Me the truth. Do not try to cheat Me with tricks.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker warmly addresses His listener as “My dear maternal uncle.”
He wishes to ask another question and requests a truthful answer.
He asks not to be cheated with tricks.
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:
The same Absolute Truth who enjoys as Kṛṣṇa, Śyāmasundara, who plays His flute and dances with the gopīs, sometimes takes birth in a brāhmaṇa family and plays the part of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, accepting the renounced order of life. It appears contradictory that the same Kṛṣṇa accepted the ecstasy of the gopīs, and of course this is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When answering a difficult question, do I speak truthfully or try to evade it?
Answer one question today honestly, without using words to mislead.
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