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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 17.214
তবে আমি প্রীতিবাক্য কহিল সবারে ।
সবে ঘরে যাহ, আমি নিষেধিব তারে ॥ ২১৪ ॥
tabe āmi prīti-vākya kahila sabāre
sabe ghare yāha, āmi niṣedhiba tāre
“After hearing their complaints, in sweet words I told them, ‘Please go back home. I shall certainly prohibit Nimāi Paṇḍita from continuing His Hare Kṛṣṇa movement.’
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker heard the complaints and answered in sweet words.
He asked those who complained to return home.
He promised to prohibit Nimāi Paṇḍita from continuing His Hare Kṛṣṇa movement.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this promise show about the opposition faced by the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement?
Read the promise carefully today, noticing the difference between its sweet wording and its intention to stop the movement.
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