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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.43
তবে সব শিষ্টলোক করে হাহাকার ।
ঐছে কর্ম হেথা কৈল কোন্ দুরাচার ॥ ৪৩ ॥
tabe saba śiṣṭa-loka kare hāhākāra
aiche karma hethā kaila kon durācāra
Then all the assembled gentlemen exclaimed, “What is this? What is this? Who has performed such mischievous activities? Who is that sinful man?”
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All the assembled gentlemen reacted with surprise, exclaiming, “What is this?”
They recognized what had happened as mischievous activity.
They asked who had done it, describing the person responsible as sinful.
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:
In this chapter we shall find descriptions of the mango distribution festival and Lord Caitanya’s discourses with Chand Kazi. Finally, the chapter shows that the same son of mother Yaśodā, Lord Kṛṣṇa, tasted four transcendental mellows of devotional service in His form of Śacīnandana, the son of mother Śacī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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In this verse: “assembled”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do you respond when you recognize that someone has acted mischievously?
Pause before reacting to wrongdoing today, and distinguish what you know from what you still need to ask.
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