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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.329
পঞ্চপ্রবন্ধে পঞ্চরসের চরিত ।
সংক্ষেপে কহিলুঁ অতি,—না কৈলুঁ বিস্তৃত ॥ ৩২৯ ॥
pañca-prabandhe pañca-rasera carita
saṅkṣepe kahiluṅ ati, — nā kailuṅ vistṛta
After the chapters of the preface, I have described five transcendental mellows in five chapters. I have described them very briefly rather than expansively.
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After the preface, the author describes five transcendental mellows.
These mellows are described in five chapters.
The descriptions are very brief rather than expansive.
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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Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellows”
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How might remembering the brevity of these descriptions shape your reading?
Pause over the phrase “five transcendental mellows” and note that their descriptions are brief.
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