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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 17.191
তাহা দেখি’ রহিনু মুঞি মহাভয় পাঞা ।
কীর্তন না বর্জিহ, ঘরে রহোঁ ত’ বসিয়া ॥ ১৯১ ॥
tāhā dekhi’ rahinu muñi mahā-bhaya pāñā
kīrtana nā varjiha, ghare rahoṅ ta’ vasiyā
“After seeing this, I was very much afraid. I asked them not to stop the congregational chanting but to go sit down at home.
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After seeing what had happened, the speaker became very much afraid.
He asked the orderlies not to stop the congregational chanting.
Instead of sending them out again, he told them to go sit down at home.
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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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.
What can you notice about the speaker’s willingness to change his instructions?
Take a quiet moment today to reflect on allowing congregational chanting to continue without interference.
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