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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 17.185
ঐছে যদি পুনঃ কর, তবে না সহিমু ।
সবংশে তোমারে মারি যবন নাশিমু ॥ ১৮৫ ॥
aiche yadi punaḥ kara, tabe nā sahimu
savaṁśe tomāre māri yavana nāśimu
“ ‘But if you perform such activities again, I shall not be tolerant. At that time I shall kill you, your entire family and all the meat-eaters.’
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The lion warned the speaker not to perform such activities again.
He said that He would not tolerate a repetition.
His warning threatened death for the speaker, his entire family, and all the meat-eaters.
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:
The same Absolute Truth who enjoys as Kṛṣṇa, Śyāmasundara, who plays His flute and dances with the gopīs, sometimes takes birth in a brāhmaṇa family and plays the part of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, accepting the renounced order of life. It appears contradictory that the same Kṛṣṇa accepted the ecstasy of the gopīs, and of course this is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand.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.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “tolerant”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I take a warning seriously enough to stop repeating a wrong?
Identify one harmful action you have been warned about, and make a concrete choice not to repeat it today.
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