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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 12.20
‘তিন পুত্র মরুক শিবার, এখন না আইল ।
ভোখে মরি’ গেনু, মোরে বাসা না দেওয়াইল’ ॥ ২০ ॥
‘tina putra maruka śivāra, ekhana nā āila
bhokhe mari’ genu, more vāsā nā deoyāila’
“Śivānanda Sena has not arranged for My residence,” He complained, “and I am so hungry I could die. Because he has not come, I curse his three sons to die.”
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Nityānanda Prabhu complained that Śivānanda Sena had not arranged His residence.
He expressed His intense hunger by saying that He could die.
Because Śivānanda had not come, He pronounced a curse that Śivānanda’s three sons would die.
Loving anger and reconciliation. Jagadānanda’s hurt over rejected oil is healed through personal service and prasāda.
The mood of Antya 12 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:
As usual, the leader was Śivānanda Sena, who traveled with his wife and children. Because arrangements were delayed en route and Lord Nityānanda did not have a suitable place to reside, He became somewhat disturbed.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 12
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