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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.80
এক আম্রবীজ প্রভু অঙ্গনে রোপিল ।
তৎক্ষণে জন্মিল বৃক্ষ বাড়িতে লাগিল ॥ ৮০ ॥
eka āmra-bīja prabhu aṅgane ropila
tat-kṣaṇe janmila vṛkṣa bāḍite lāgila
The Lord then sowed a mango seed in the yard, and immediately the seed fructified into a tree and began to grow.
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The Lord sowed a mango seed in the yard.
Immediately, the seed fructified into a tree.
The tree began to grow.
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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What strikes me about the immediate growth described here?
Read this account slowly today, noticing the word “immediately.”
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