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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.70
ihāre nāriluṅ kṛṣṇa-nāma kahāite!”
śuniyā svarūpa-gosāñi lāgilā kahite
“But I could not induce this boy to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.” Hearing this, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī began to speak.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that He could not induce this boy to chant Kṛṣṇa’s holy name.
This contrasted with His statement that He had induced the whole world to chant.
Hearing the Lord’s words, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī began to speak, offering an explanation in the following verses.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “chant”, “holy name”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Are you willing to listen when someone offers a different understanding of another person’s behavior?
Read the next two verses slowly before forming a judgment about the boy’s silence.
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