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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.225
কাজীরে বিদায় দিল শচীর নন্দন ।
নাচিতে নাচিতে আইলা আপন ভবন ॥ ২২৫ ॥
kājīre vidāya dila śacīra nandana
nācite nācite āilā āpana bhavana
The Lord asked the Kazi to go back home. Then the son of mother Śacī came back to His own home, dancing and dancing.
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The Lord asked the Kazi to return home.
The son of mother Śacī then returned to His own home.
He went home dancing and dancing.
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
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What draws my attention in the description of the Lord returning home dancing?
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