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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 17.174
তুমি কাজী,—হিন্দু–ধর্ম–বিরোধে অধিকারী ।
এবে যে না কর মানা বুঝিতে না পারি ॥ ১৭৪ ॥
tumi kājī — hindu-dharma-virodhe adhikārī
ebe ye nā kara mānā bujhite nā pāri
“As a Muslim magistrate, you have the right to oppose the performance of Hindu ceremonies, but now you do not forbid them. I cannot understand the reason why.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker acknowledges the Muslim magistrate’s right to oppose Hindu ceremonies.
Yet the magistrate is no longer forbidding those ceremonies.
The speaker says He does not understand the reason and seeks an explanation.
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:
When Kṛṣṇa in His form of Nārāyaṇa saw Rādhārāṇī, He could not keep His position as Nārāyaṇa and again assumed the form of Kṛṣṇa. The King of Vrajabhūmi is Nanda Mahārāja, and the same person in Navadvīpa is Jagannātha Miśra, the father of Caitanya Mahāprabhu.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 someone changes their behavior, do I ask why rather than assume I know?
Where a change puzzles you today, ask respectfully for the reason.
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