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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.44
হাড়িকে আনিয়া সব দূর করাইল ।
জল–গোময় দিয়া সেই স্থান লেপাইল ॥ ৪৪ ॥
hāḍike āniyā saba dūra karāila
jala-gomaya diyā sei sthāna lepāila
They called for a sweeper [hāḍi], who threw all the items of worship far away and cleansed the place by mopping it with a mixture of water and cow dung.
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A sweeper removed the worship items and cleansed the place with water and cow dung.
The purport calls people who perform public sanitary work hāḍis. Their work includes removing stool and sweeping streets.
Although sometimes regarded as untouchable, especially while working, hāḍis also have the right to become devotees.
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The purport of CC Ādi 17.44 quotesBG 9.32
This is established by Śrī Bhagavad-gītā (9.32), where the Lord declares:
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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:
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “cleansed”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I ever judge someone’s opportunity for devotion by the work they do?
Show respect to a person doing cleaning or sanitation work today, remembering their right to become a devotee.
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