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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.116
“কোন্ অপরাধ, প্রভু, কৈল হরিদাস ? কি লাগিয়া দ্বার-মানা, করে উপবাস ?” ১১৬ ॥ ১১৬ ॥
“kon aparādha, prabhu, kaila haridāsa?
ki lāgiyā dvāra-mānā, kare upavāsa?”
“What great offense has Junior Haridāsa committed? Why has he been forbidden to come to Your door? He has now been fasting for three days.”
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The devotees asked what great offense Junior Haridāsa had committed.
They asked why he had been forbidden to come to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s door.
They also brought his condition to the Lord’s attention: he had been fasting for three days.
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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