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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.62
শাপিব তোমারে মুঞি, পাঞাছি মনোদুঃখ ।
পৈতা ছিণ্ডিয়া শাপে প্রচণ্ড দুর্মুখ ॥ ৬২ ॥
śāpiba tomāre muñi, pāñāchi mano-duḥkha
paitā chiṇḍiyā śāpe pracaṇḍa durmukha
That brāhmaṇa was expert in talking harshly and cursing others. Thus he broke his sacred thread and declared, “I shall now curse You, for Your behavior has greatly aggrieved me.”
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The brāhmaṇa was expert in talking harshly and cursing others.
He broke his sacred thread before declaring his intention to curse the Lord.
He said that the Lord’s behavior had greatly aggrieved 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:
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. To understand Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s ecstatic love for Him, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.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.
When you feel hurt, do you become tempted to speak harshly?
If you feel aggrieved today, pause before speaking harsh words.
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