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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.185

তথাপি আপন-গণে করিতে সাবধান ।

বাহ্যে কিছু রোষাভাস কৈলা ভগবান্ ॥ ১৮৫ ॥

tathāpi āpana-gaṇe karite sāvadhāna

bāhye kichu roṣābhāsa kailā bhagavān

Translation

However, just to warn His personal associates, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, externally expressed feelings of anger.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord’s Outward Anger Gives Instruction

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

  2. 2

    He externally expressed feelings of anger to warn His personal associates.

  3. 3

    When Mahārāja Pratāparudra asked to see Him, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately refused.

Key points from the purport
  • When Mahārāja Pratāparudra asked to see the Lord, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately refused, saying:

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Public ecstasy with inward longing. The festival’s collective joy carries the profound Vraja mood of meeting and separation.

The mood of Madhya 13 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 13: The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yātrā

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

While performing kīrtana, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited various symptoms of transcendental ecstasy, and Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exchanged Their feelings very blissfully. When the cars reached the place known as Balagaṇḍi, the devotees offered the deities simple food.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 13
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. tathāpistill
  2. āpana-gaṇeto personal associates
  3. kariteto do
  4. sāvadhānawarning
  5. bāhyeexternally
  6. kichusome
  7. roṣa-ābhāsaapparent anger
  8. kailāshowed
  9. bhagavānthe Supreme Personality of Godhead
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association

    Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “associates”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can a warning help me become more attentive to instruction?

Practice

Recall one warning you have received, and consider what it was meant to teach you.

Live this todayThe Lord’s Outward Anger Gives InstructionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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