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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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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 5: The Activities of Sākṣi-gopāla
Madhya 5.50Madhya 5.52

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 5.51

এত শুনি’ সেই বিপ্র রহে মৌন ধরি’ ।

তাঁর পুত্র মারিতে আইল হাতে ঠেঙ্গা করি’ ॥ ৫১ ॥

eta śuni’ sei vipra rahe mauna dhari’

tāṅra putra mārite āila hāte ṭheṅgā kari’

Translation

After the young brāhmaṇa submitted this statement, the elderly brāhmaṇa remained silent. Taking this opportunity, his son immediately came out with a stick to strike the younger man.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Silence Is Followed by a Threat

  1. 1

    After the young brāhmaṇa spoke, the elderly brāhmaṇa remained silent.

  2. 2

    The elderly brāhmaṇa's son took this opportunity to act.

  3. 3

    The son immediately came out with a stick to strike the younger man.

How it feels

Faith vindicated. The Deity bears witness; anxiety over a broken promise becomes astonishment and relief.

The mood of Madhya 5 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 5: The Activities of Sākṣi-gopāla

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

When the two brāhmaṇas returned to Vidyānagara, the younger brāhmaṇa raised the question of this marriage, but the elderly brāhmaṇa, due to obligations to his friends and wife, answered that he could not remember his promise. Because of this, the younger brāhmaṇa returned to Vṛndāvana and narrated the whole story to Gopālajī.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. eta śuni’hearing this
  2. sei viprathe elderly brāhmaṇa
  3. raheremains
  4. mauna dhari’holding silence
  5. tāṅrahis
  6. putrason
  7. māriteto strike
  8. āilacame out
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can you keep anger from turning a difficult conversation into a threat?

Practice

If a conversation becomes heated today, pause rather than make a threatening gesture.

Live this todaySilence Is Followed by a ThreatThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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