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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.182
মোর কীর্তন মানা করিস, করিমু তোর ক্ষয় ।
আঁখি মুদি’ কাঁপি আমি পাঞা বড় ভয় ॥ ১৮২ ॥
mora kīrtana mānā karis, karimu tora kṣaya
āṅkhi mudi’ kāṅpi āmi pāñā baḍa bhaya
“ ‘You have forbidden the performance of My congregational chanting. Therefore I must destroy you!’ Being very much afraid of Him, I closed my eyes and trembled.
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The lion said, “You have forbidden the performance of My congregational chanting.”
The lion declared that this prohibition was the reason for His threat to destroy the speaker.
Very much afraid, the speaker closed his eyes and trembled.
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.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “congregational”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I show respect for congregational chanting rather than obstruct it?
If you encounter congregational chanting today, allow it to proceed without interference.
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