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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.307
তর্কে ইহা নাহি মানে যেই দুরাচার ।
কুম্ভীপাকে পচে, তার নাহিক নিস্তার ॥ ৩০৭ ॥
tarke ihā nāhi māne yei durācāra
kumbhīpāke pace, tāra nāhika nistāra
If one simply adheres to mundane arguments and therefore does not accept this, he will boil in the hell of Kumbhīpāka. For him there is no deliverance.
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The translation sternly warns against rejecting the Lord’s activities through exclusive reliance on mundane arguments.
The purport describes Kumbhīpāka as a hellish condition where those who cook living birds and beasts to satisfy their tongue are punished in boiling oil.
Kumbhīpāka is meant for those who are unnecessarily envious. The purport includes those who envy the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Ādi 17.307 quotesSB 5.26.13
Kumbhīpāka, a type of hellish condition, is described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (5.26.13), wherein it is said that a person who cooks living birds and beasts to satisfy his tongue is brought before Yamarāja after death and punished in the Kumbhīpāka hell.
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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:
There is no need of mundane arguments in this connection, because mundane arguments are meaningless in regard to inconceivable potency. At the end of the seventeenth chapter, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, following in the footsteps of Śrīla Vyāsadeva, has summarized all the ādi-līlā pastimes separately.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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In this verse: “deliverance”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When I encounter the Lord’s activities, do I approach them respectfully or with an envious, dismissive attitude?
Reread this passage respectfully, noticing any impulse to dismiss the Lord’s activities through mundane arguments alone.
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