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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.186
এত কহি’ সিংহ গেল, আমার হৈল ভয় ।
এই দেখ, নখচিহ্ন আমার হৃদয় ॥ ১৮৬ ॥
eta kahi’ siṁha gela, āmāra haila bhaya
ei dekha, nakha-cihna amora hṛdaya
“After saying this, the lion left, but I was very much afraid of Him. Just see the marks of His nails on my heart!”
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After delivering His warning, the lion left.
The speaker remained very much afraid of Him.
He invited his listeners to see the marks of the lion’s nails on his heart.
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 King of Vrajabhūmi is Nanda Mahārāja, and the same person in Navadvīpa is Jagannātha Miśra, the father of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Similarly, mother Yaśodā is the Queen of Vrajabhūmi, and in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya she is Śacīmātā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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