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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.101
একদিন আচার্য প্রভুরে কৈলা নিমন্ত্রণ ।
ঘরে ভাত করি’ করে বিবিধ ব্যঞ্জন ॥ ১০১ ॥
eka-dina ācārya prabhure kailā nimantraṇa
ghare bhāta kari’ kare vividha vyañjana
One day Bhagavān Ācārya invited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to dine at his home. Thus he was preparing rice and various types of vegetables.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Bhagavān Ācārya invited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to dine at his home.
He prepared rice and various kinds of vegetables for the meal.
The surrounding account describes his cooking as an expression of great affection for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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:
Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary. Later, when Junior Haridāsa, following the order of Bhagavān Ācārya, went to collect alms from Mādhavīdevī, he committed an offense by talking intimately with a woman although he was in the renounced order.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can preparing a meal become an expression of affectionate service?
Prepare one part of a meal today with special care for the person receiving it.
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