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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 17.181
মোর বুকে নখ দিয়া ঘোর–স্বরে বলে ।
ফাড়িমু তোমার বুক মৃদঙ্গ বদলে ॥ ১৮১ ॥
mora buke nakha diyā ghora-svare bale
phāḍimu tomāra buka mṛdaṅga badale
“Placing its nails on my chest, the lion said in a grave voice, ‘I shall immediately bifurcate your chest as you broke the mṛdaṅga drum!
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The lion placed its nails on the speaker’s chest.
In a grave voice, the lion threatened to split his chest.
The warning directly recalled his breaking of the mṛdaṅga drum.
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.
How does this grave warning affect my attitude toward disturbing chanting?
Today, take care not to disturb anyone who is chanting.
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