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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.52
শ্রীবাসে করাইলি তুই ভবানী–পূজন ।
কোটি জন্ম হবে তোর রৌরবে পতন ॥ ৫২ ॥
śrīvāse karāili tui bhavānī-pūjana
koṭi janma habe tora raurave patana
“You have made Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura appear to have been worshiping the goddess Bhavānī. Simply for this offense, you will have to fall down into hellish life for ten million births.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord condemned making Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura appear to have worshiped the goddess Bhavānī. He declared that this offense would bring hellish life for ten million births.
The purport condemns tantric bhavānī-pūjā practiced with the desire to drink wine and eat meat.
Such practices should not be considered equal to worship of Lord Kṛṣṇa in devotional service. The purport describes both these activities and their results as hellish.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
The seventeenth chapter, as summarized by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes from His sixteenth year until the time He accepted the renounced order of life. Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has already vividly described these pastimes in the Caitanya-bhāgavata; therefore Kṛṣṇa dāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī describes them only briefly.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: “bhavānī”
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: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I careful to represent a devotee’s worship truthfully?
Before repeating a claim about someone’s worship today, check whether you actually know it to be true.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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