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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.321
অষ্টমে ‘চৈতন্যলীলা–বর্ণন’–কারণ ।
এক কৃষ্ণনামের মহা–মহিমা–কথন ॥ ৩২১ ॥
aṣṭame ‘caitanya-līlā-varṇana’-kāraṇa
eka kṛṣṇa-nāmera mahā-mahimā-kathana
The eighth chapter gives the reason for describing Lord Caitanya’s pastimes. It also describes the greatness of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s holy name.
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The eighth chapter gives the reason for describing Lord Caitanya’s pastimes.
It also describes Lord Kṛṣṇa’s holy name.
The greatness of that holy name is a subject of the chapter.
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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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “holy name”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I give more attention to the greatness of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s holy name?
Spend a quiet moment saying Lord Kṛṣṇa’s holy name with attention.
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