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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.243
একদিন মহাপ্রভুর নৃত্য–অবসানে ।
এক ব্রাহ্মণী আসি’ ধরিল চরণে ॥ ২৪৩ ॥
eka-dina mahāprabhura nṛtya-avasāne
eka brāhmaṇī āsi’ dharila caraṇe
One day when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had finished His dancing, a woman, the wife of a brāhmaṇa, came there and caught hold of His lotus feet.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had finished His dancing.
A woman who was the wife of a brāhmaṇa came there.
She caught hold of His lotus feet.
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:
The same Absolute Truth who enjoys as Kṛṣṇa, Śyāmasundara, who plays His flute and dances with the gopīs, sometimes takes birth in a brāhmaṇa family and plays the part of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, accepting the renounced order of life. It appears contradictory that the same Kṛṣṇa accepted the ecstasy of the gopīs, and of course this is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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In this verse: “lotus feet”
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What details does this verse give about the woman’s approach to the Lord?
Read the translation once more, noting its sequence: the dancing ended, the woman came, and she caught His feet.
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