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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.68
শিবানন্দ বালকেরে বহু যত্ন করিলা ।
তবু সেই বালক কৃষ্ণনাম না কহিলা ॥ ৬৮ ॥
śivānanda bālakere bahu yatna karilā
tabu sei bālaka kṛṣṇa-nāma nā kahilā
Although Śivānanda Sena tried with much endeavor to get his boy to speak Kṛṣṇa’s holy name, the boy would not utter it.
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Śivānanda Sena tried with much endeavor to get his boy to speak Kṛṣṇa’s holy name.
Despite his father’s efforts, the boy would not utter it.
The passage later offers another understanding of this silence: the boy was thought to be chanting within his mind.
Sweetness amidst longing. Jagannātha’s prasādam awakens intense awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
The mood of Antya 16 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:
When Kavi-karṇapūra was only seven years old, he was initiated by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu into the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. He later became the greatest poet among the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
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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: “holy name”, “chanting”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can you leave room for another explanation when someone does not respond as you expect?
When someone is quiet today, pause before deciding what their silence means.
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