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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.36
কীর্তন শুনি’ বাহিরে তারা জ্বলি’ পুড়ি’ মরে ।
শ্রীবাসেরে দুঃখ দিতে নানা যুক্তি করে ॥ ৩৬ ॥
kīrtana śuni’ bāhire tārā jvali’ puḍi’ mare
śrīvāsere duḥkha dite nānā yukti kare
Thus the nonbelievers almost burned to ashes and died out of envy. To retaliate, they planned various ways to give trouble to Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The nonbelievers were overwhelmed by envy.
Their suffering is described as almost burning to ashes and dying out of envy.
To retaliate, they planned various ways to trouble Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura.
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:
Vivid descriptions of some portions of His pastimes are seen in this chapter, however, because Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has not elaborately described them. In this chapter we shall find descriptions of the mango distribution festival and Lord Caitanya’s discourses with Chand Kazi.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Have I allowed envy to become a wish to trouble someone?
If envy arises today, pause and refrain from saying or doing anything intended to hurt the person.
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