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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.117
প্রভু কহে, — “বৈরাগী করে প্রকৃতি সম্ভাষণ ।
দেখিতে না পারোঁ আমি তাহার বদন ॥ ১১৭ ॥
prabhu kahe, — “vairāgī kare prakṛti sambhāṣaṇa
dekhite nā pāroṅ āmi tāhāra vadana
The Lord replied, “I cannot tolerate seeing the face of a person who has accepted the renounced order of life but who still talks intimately with a woman.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejects intimate talk with a woman by someone who has accepted the renounced order.
Saralatā, or simplicity, is the first qualification of a Vaiṣṇava. Duplicity or cunning behavior is a great offense against devotional service.
Advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness means gradually losing material attachment and becoming more attached to the Lord’s service. Claiming advancement without actual detachment is cheating.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Where could I be more honest about the difference between my spiritual claims and my actual attachments?
Privately acknowledge one attachment you still struggle with, without claiming to have overcome it.
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