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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.194
আর ম্লেচ্ছ কহে,—হিন্দু ‘কৃষ্ণ’ ‘কৃষ্ণ’ বলি’ ।
হাসে, কান্দে, নাচে, গায়, গড়ি যায় ধূলি ॥ ১৯৪ ॥
āra mleccha kahe, — hindu ‘kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa’ bali’
hāse, kānde, nāce, gāya, gaḍi yāya dhūli
“One meat-eater said, ‘The Hindus say, “Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa,” and they laugh, cry, dance, chant and fall on the ground, smearing their bodies with dirt.
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One meat-eater reported that the Hindus were saying “Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa.”
He described them laughing, crying, dancing and chanting.
He also said that they fell on the ground, smearing their bodies with dirt.
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: “chant”, “chanting”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “crying”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to you in this observer’s description of the chanting?
Spend a brief moment saying “Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa,” listening carefully to the names.
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