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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.48
গ্রাম–সম্বন্ধে আমি তোমার মাতুল ।
ভাগিনা, মুই কুষ্ঠব্যাধিতে হঞাছি ব্যাকুল ॥ ৪৮ ॥
grāma-sambandhe āmi tomāra mātula
bhāginā, mui kuṣṭha-vyādhite hañāchi vyākula
“My dear nephew, I am Your maternal uncle in our village relationship. Please see how greatly this attack of leprosy has afflicted me.
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Gopāla Cāpāla addressed Caitanya Mahāprabhu as his dear nephew.
He explained that he was His maternal uncle through their village relationship.
He asked Caitanya Mahāprabhu to see how greatly leprosy had afflicted him.
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.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “relationship”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I able to speak honestly about suffering when I need help?
If you need help today, express one difficulty plainly to someone you trust.
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