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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.228
শ্রীবাস–পুত্রের তাহাঁ হৈল পরলোক ।
তবু শ্রীবাসের চিত্তে না জন্মিল শোক ॥ ২২৮ ॥
śrīvāsa-putrera tāhāṅ haila paraloka
tabu śrīvāsera citte nā janmila śoka
At that time a calamity took place — Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s son died. Yet Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura was not at all sorry.
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A calamity took place at that time.
Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s son died.
Yet Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura was not at all sorry.
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:
Śrī Nityānanda occupies an ecstatic position of parental love in servitude and fraternal attraction. Śrī Advaita Prabhu exhibits the ecstasy of both fraternity and servitude.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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