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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 2: The Chastisement of Junior Haridāsa
Antya 2.111Antya 2.113

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.112

অন্ন প্রশংসিয়া প্রভু ভোজন করিলা ।

নিজগৃহে আসি’ গোবিন্দেরে আজ্ঞা দিলা ॥ ১১২ ॥

anna praśaṁsiyā prabhu bhojana karilā

nija-gṛhe āsi’ govindere ājñā dilā

Translation

Praising the quality of the rice, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu partook of the prasādam. Then, after returning to His residence, He gave the following order to Govinda, His personal assistant.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Appreciation Followed by an Order

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu praised the quality of the rice and partook of the prasādam.

  2. 2

    After the meal, He returned to His residence.

  3. 3

    There He gave an order to Govinda, His personal assistant; the next verse states that order.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 2: The Chastisement of Junior Haridāsa

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.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. anna praśaṁsiyāpraising the rice
  2. prabhuŚrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  3. bhojana karilāpartook of the prasādam
  4. nija-gṛheto His own residence
  5. āsi’coming back
  6. govindereto Govinda
  7. ājñā dilāHe gave an order
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Can I follow the sequence of events carefully without assuming reasons the text has not given?

Practice

Reread this verse and the next, noting when and to whom the order was given.

Live this todayAppreciation Followed by an OrderThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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