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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.111
প্রভু কহে, — ‘কোন্ যাই’ মাগিয়া আনিল ?’ ছোট-হরিদাসের নাম আচার্য কহিল ॥ ১১১ ॥
prabhu kahe, — ‘kon yāi’ māgiyā ānila?’
choṭa-haridāsera nāma ācārya kahila
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked who had begged the rice and brought it back, Bhagavān Ācārya mentioned the name of Junior Haridāsa.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked who had begged the rice.
His question also concerned who had brought it back.
Bhagavān Ācārya named Junior Haridāsa as the person who had done this.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
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. Because of this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejected Junior Haridāsa, and despite all the requests of the Lord’s stalwart devotees, the Lord did not accept him again.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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In this verse: “haridāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I attentive to the people whose service makes an offering possible?
Today, acknowledge one person whose effort helped bring something you needed.
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