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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.50
এত শুনি’ মহাপ্রভুর হইল ক্রুদ্ধ মন ।
ক্রোধাবেশে বলে তারে তর্জন–বচন ॥ ৫০ ॥
eta śuni’ mahāprabhura ha-ila kruddha mana
krodhāveśe bale tāre tarjana-vacana
Hearing this, Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared greatly angry, and in that angry mood He spoke some words chastising him.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
On hearing this, Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared greatly angry.
He spoke in that angry mood.
His words chastised the man rather than reassured 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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How willing am I to listen when correction is uncomfortable?
Today, pause and listen carefully if someone corrects you.
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