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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 11.29
স্বতন্ত্র ঈশ্বর তুমি হও ইচ্ছাময় ।
জগৎ নাচাও, যারে যৈছে ইচ্ছা হয় ॥ ২৯ ॥
svatantra īśvara tumi hao icchāmaya
jagat nācāo, yāre yaiche icchā haya
“My dear Lord, You are the fully independent Personality of Godhead. You act by Your own free will. You cause the whole world to dance and act as You like.
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Haridāsa Ṭhākura addresses Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the fully independent Personality of Godhead.
The Lord acts by His own free will.
Haridāsa Ṭhākura describes the whole world as dancing and acting according to the Lord’s will.
Sacred grief and gratitude. The Lord personally honors Haridāsa’s departure and leads the funeral observances.
The mood of Antya 11 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 chapter it is described how Brahmā Haridāsa Ṭhākura gave up his body with the consent of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and how the Lord Himself personally performed the funeral ceremony and carried the body to the sea. He personally entombed the body, covered it with sand and erected a platform on the site.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 11
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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “haridāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does recognizing the Lord’s independence affect the way you pray?
In one prayer today, acknowledge the Lord’s freedom rather than insist on your preferred outcome.
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