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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.250
ব্যাধ তুমি, জীব মার — ‘অল্প’ অপরাধ তোমার ।
কদর্থনা দিয়া মার’ — এ পাপ ‘অপার’ ॥ ২৫০ ॥
vyādha tumi, jīva māra — ‘alpa’ aparādha tomāra
kadarthanā diyā māra’ — e pāpa ‘apāra’
“Nārada Muni continued, ‘My dear hunter, your business is killing animals. That is a slight offense on your part. But when you consciously give them unnecessary pain by leaving them half-dead, you incur very great sins.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Nārada Muni distinguishes the hunter’s killing from deliberately prolonging an animal’s pain. He calls consciously leaving animals half-dead a very great sin.
The purport describes strict restrictions on animal sacrifice intended to prevent unnecessary pain. Even under these restrictions, the killer must suffer similar pain in the next life.
Killing animals daily by the thousands merely to satisfy the tongue disregards these restrictions. The purport connects such killing with worldwide suffering, wars and massacres under material nature’s laws.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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 this regard, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu narrated a story about how the great sage Nārada converted a hunter into a great Vaiṣṇava, and how this was appreciated by Nārada’s friend Parvata Muni. Sanātana Gosvāmī then offered a prayer to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the glory of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How much weight do I give an animal’s suffering when considering the satisfaction of my tongue?
Choose a meal without meat today rather than satisfying your tongue through animal killing.
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