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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
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 2.113 Antya 2.115

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.114

দ্বার মানা হৈল, হরিদাস দুঃখী হৈল মনে ।

কি লাগিয়া দ্বার-মানা কেহ নাহি জানে ॥ ১১৪ ॥

dvāra mānā haila, haridāsa duḥkhī haila mane

ki lāgiyā dvāra-mānā keha nāhi jāne

Translation

When Junior Haridāsa heard that he had been ordered not to approach Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he was very unhappy. No one could understand why he had been ordered not to come.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Sorrow Without Understanding the Reason

1
Junior Haridāsa heard that he had been ordered not to approach Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
2
On hearing this, he became very unhappy.
3
No one could understand why he had been ordered not to come.

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

Antya 2: The Chastisement of Junior Haridāsa

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

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. One year after this incident, Junior Haridāsa went to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā and committed suicide.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

dvāra mānāclosed door
hailathere was
haridāsaChoṭa Haridāsa
duḥkhīvery unhappy
haila manebecame within his mind
ki lāgiyāfor what reason
dvāra-mānāthe door was closed
keha nāhi jāneno one could understand

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

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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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

When someone is distressed, can I recognize their sorrow without claiming to know its full cause?

Practice

Today, listen to someone’s difficulty without offering an explanation you cannot know.

Live this todaySorrow Without Understanding the ReasonThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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