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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.168
বিপ্র কহে, — পাঠান, তোমার পাৎসার দোহাই ।
চল তুমি আমি সিক্দার-পাশ যাই ॥ ১৬৮ ॥
vipra kahe, — pāṭhāna, tomāra pātsāra dohāi
cala tumi āmi sikdāra-pāśa yāi
The brāhmaṇa said, “You Pāṭhāna soldiers are all under the protection of your king. Let us go to your commander and get his decision.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The brāhmaṇa addressed the Pāṭhāna soldiers.
He reminded them that they were all under their king’s protection.
He proposed going to their commander and obtaining his decision.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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:
Some Pāṭhāna soldiers who were passing through saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and falsely concluded that the Lord’s associates, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya and others, had killed the Lord with a poison named dhuturā and were taking His wealth. Thus the soldiers arrested them.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When a disagreement becomes serious, can I seek a decision from someone responsible?
Identify one unresolved disagreement and consider whom you could respectfully approach for a decision.
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