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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 17.213
গ্রামের ঠাকুর তুমি, সব তোমার জন ।
নিমাই বোলাইয়া তারে করহ বর্জন ॥ ২১৩ ॥
grāmera ṭhākura tumi, saba tomāra jana
nimāi bolāiyā tāre karaha varjana
“ ‘Sir, you are the ruler of this town. Whether Hindu or Muslim, everyone is under your protection. Therefore please call Nimāi Paṇḍita and make Him leave the town.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Ṭhākura can mean God, a godly person, or a kṣatriya. Here the brāhmaṇas address the Kazi as ṭhākura because he is the town’s ruler.
The pāṣaṇḍīs ask the Kazi to expel Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for introducing hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana.
The purport describes the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement’s welcome in great cities and a failed attempt to remove it from Melbourne. By Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s grace, people happily accept chanting, with most satisfactory results.
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:
Therefore the son of Śacī is the son of Yaśodā. Śrī Nityānanda occupies an ecstatic position of parental love in servitude and fraternal attraction.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
Learn the words of the verse.
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”, “hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana”
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “grace”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the purport’s account of people welcoming chanting contrast with the request for expulsion?
Spend a brief moment today chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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