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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.174
এখনি আসিবে সব, আমি যদি ফুকারি ।
ঘোড়া-পিড়া লুটি’ লবে তোমা-সবা মারি’ ॥ ১৭৪ ॥
ekhani āsibe saba, āmi yadi phukāri
ghoḍā-piḍā luṭi’ labe tomā-sabā māri’
“If I call loudly, they will come immediately to kill you and plunder your horses and saddles.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker says that a loud call will bring others immediately.
He warns that they will come to kill those he is addressing.
He also warns that their horses and saddles will be plundered.
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:
Thus the soldiers arrested them. However, when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu regained His senses, His associates were released.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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How does the threat of immediate retaliation shape this warning?
Read the warning carefully and name the consequences it threatens, without treating it as an instruction to imitate.
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