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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.171
বিশ্বাস করিয়া শুন চৈতন্যচরিত ।
তর্ক না করিহ, তর্কে হবে বিপরীত ॥ ১৭১ ॥
viśvāsa kariyā śuna caitanya-carita
tarka nā kariha, tarke habe viparīta
Please hear the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu with faith and confidence. Do not argue, for arguments will produce a contrary result.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The reader is invited to hear the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
The requested attitude is faith and confidence.
The verse warns against argument, saying that it will produce a contrary result rather than the intended benefit of hearing.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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 his spiritual body, however, he continued to sing devotional songs, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard them. When the Vaiṣṇavas of Bengal went to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, these incidents became known to Svarūpa Dāmodara and others.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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