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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.183
ভীত দেখি’ সিংহ বলে হইয়া সদয় ।
তোরে শিক্ষা দিতে কৈলু তোর পরাজয় ॥ ১৮৩ ॥
bhīta dekhi’ siṁha bale ha-iyā sadaya
tore śikṣā dite kailu tora parājaya
“Seeing me so afraid, the lion said, ‘I have defeated you just to teach you a lesson, but I must be merciful to you.
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The lion saw that the speaker was deeply afraid.
He explained that He had defeated the speaker to teach him a lesson.
Along with this correction, the lion declared that He must be merciful to him.
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
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