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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.67
ভঙ্গী করি’ জ্ঞানমার্গ করিল ব্যাখ্যান ।
ক্রোধাবেশে প্রভু তারে কৈল অবজ্ঞান ॥ ৬৭ ॥
bhaṅgī kari’ jñāna-mārga karila vyākhyāna
krodhāveśe prabhu tāre kaila avajñāna
Thus He whimsically began to explain the path of philosophical speculation, and the Lord, in His anger, seemingly disrespected Him.
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He whimsically began to explain a path.
That path was philosophical speculation.
The Lord responded in anger and seemingly disrespected 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
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