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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.46
সর্বাঙ্গ বেড়িল কীটে, কাটে নিরন্তর ।
অসহ্য বেদনা, দুঃখে জ্বলয়ে অন্তর ॥ ৪৬ ॥
sarvāṅga beḍila kīṭe, kāṭe nirantara
asahya vedanā, duḥkhe jvalaye antara
Incessantly covered with germs and insects biting him all over his body, Gopāla Cāpāla felt unbearable pain. His entire body burned in distress.
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Gopāla Cāpāla was incessantly covered with germs and insects.
The insects bit him all over his body, and he felt unbearable pain.
His entire body burned in distress.
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.
How can I become more attentive to suffering that another person finds unbearable?
Listen patiently today if someone speaks about physical pain, without minimizing their distress.
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