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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.45
তিন দিন রহি’ সেই গোপাল–চাপাল ।
সর্বাঙ্গে হইল কুষ্ঠ, বহে রক্তধার ॥ ৪৫ ॥
tina dina rahi’ sei gopāla-cāpāla
sarvāṅge ha-ila kuṣṭha, vahe rakta-dhāra
After three days, leprosy attacked Gopāla Cāpāla, and blood oozed from sores all over his body.
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After three days, leprosy attacked Gopāla Cāpāla.
Sores appeared all over his body.
Blood oozed from those sores, showing the severity of his bodily affliction.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this description help me notice about the hardship of bodily illness?
Take a quiet moment to acknowledge the hardship of someone you know who is ill.
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