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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.203
এত শুনি’ তা’–সভারে ঘরে পাঠাইল ।
হেনকালে পাষণ্ডী হিন্দু পাঁচ–সাত আইল ॥ ২০৩ ॥
eta śuni’ tā’-sabhāre ghare pāṭhāila
hena-kāle pāṣaṇḍī hindu pāṅca-sāta āila
“After hearing all this, I sent all the mlecchas back to their homes. Five or seven nonbelieving Hindus then approached me.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
After hearing the reports, the speaker sends all the mlecchas home. Five or seven nonbelieving Hindus then approach him.
The purport uses pāṣaṇḍī for nonbelievers engaged in fruitive activities and idolatrous worshipers of many demigods.
Pāṣaṇḍīs do not believe in one God, the Supreme Personality, Lord Viṣṇu. They think all the demigods have the same potency as He.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
Similarly, mother Yaśodā is the Queen of Vrajabhūmi, and in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya she is Śacīmātā. Therefore the son of Śacī is the son of Yaśodā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How clearly do I understand the distinction this purport makes between Lord Viṣṇu and the demigods?
Write down this teaching once today: “Lord Viṣṇu is the Supreme Personality.”
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