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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.184
সে দিন বহুত নাহি কৈলি উৎপাত ।
তেঞি ক্ষমা করি’ না করিনু প্রাণাঘাত ॥ ১৮৪ ॥
se dina bahuta nāhi kaili utpāta
teñi kṣamā kari’ nā karinu prāṇāghāta
“ ‘On that day you did not create a very great disturbance. Therefore I have excused you and not taken your life.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The lion said that the disturbance on that day had not been very great.
For that reason, He had excused the speaker.
He had spared the speaker’s life rather than taking it.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do I respond when I am forgiven for a wrong?
Remember one occasion when someone excused your mistake, and quietly acknowledge that mercy.
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