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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.90
একদিন প্রভু শ্রীবাসেরে আজ্ঞা দিল ।
‘বৃহৎ সহস্রনাম’ পড়, শুনিতে মন হৈল ॥ ৯০ ॥
eka-dina prabhu śrīvāsere ājñā dila
‘bṛhat sahasra-nāma’ paḍa, śunite mana haila
One day the Lord ordered Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura to read the Bṛhat-sahasra-nāma [the thousand names of Lord Viṣṇu], for He wanted to hear them at that time.
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The Lord wanted to hear the names of Lord Viṣṇu.
He ordered Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura to read the Bṛhat-sahasra-nāma.
The Bṛhat-sahasra-nāma contains the thousand names of Lord Viṣṇu.
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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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “names of”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you make time to hear the Lord’s names attentively?
Spend a few minutes today listening to a reading of the names of Lord Viṣṇu.
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