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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 17.192
তবে ত’ নগরে হইবে স্বচ্ছন্দে কীর্তন ।
শুনি’ সব ম্লেচ্ছ আসি’ কৈল নিবেদন ॥ ১৯২ ॥
tabe ta’ nagare ha-ibe svacchande kīrtana
śuni’ saba mleccha āsi’ kaila nivedana
“Then all the meat-eaters, hearing that there would be unrestricted congregational chanting in the city, came to submit a petition.
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News spread that congregational chanting would be unrestricted in the city.
The meat-eaters heard this news.
They then came together to submit a petition.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “together”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What contrast do you notice between freedom to chant and the petitioners’ response?
Summarize in one sentence what news prompted the petition.
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