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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 17.180
শয়নে আমার উপর লাফ দিয়া চড়ি'।
অট্ট অট্ট হাসে, করে দন্ত–কড়মড়ি ॥ ১৮০ ॥
śayane āmāra upara lāpha diyā caḍi’
aṭṭa aṭṭa hāse, kare danta-kaḍamaḍi
“While I was asleep, the lion jumped on my chest, laughing fiercely and gnashing His teeth.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Kazi says that he was asleep when the encounter took place.
The lion jumped on his chest.
The lion laughed fiercely and gnashed His teeth.
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.
Which detail helps me understand how frightening this encounter was?
Reread the account slowly today, noticing the lion’s actions as the Kazi describes them.
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