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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 11.41
আমা-হেন যদি এক কীট মরি’ গেল ।
এক পিপীলিকা মৈলে পৃথ্বীর কাহাঁ হানি হৈল ? ৪১ ।। ॥ ৪১ ॥
āmā-hena yadi eka kīṭa mari’ gela
eka pipīlikā maile pṛthvīra kāhāṅ hāni haila?
“My Lord, if an insignificant insect like me dies, what is the loss? If an ant dies, where is the loss to the material world?
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Haridāsa Ṭhākura compares himself to an insignificant insect as he addresses the Lord.
He asks what loss his death would bring, just as an ant’s death brings no loss to the material world.
His words express a deeply humble view of his own importance.
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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Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “insignificant”, “humble”
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 can I approach the Lord without making my own importance the center?
Offer a brief prayer today without claiming any importance or merit.
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