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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.119
মাত্রা স্বস্রা দুহিত্রা বা নাবিবিক্তাসনো ভবেৎ ।
বলবানিন্দ্রিয়গ্রামো বিদ্বাংসমপি কর্ষতি ॥ ১১৯ ॥
mātrā svasrā duhitrā vā
nā viviktāsano bhavet
balavān indriya-grāmo
vidvāṁsam api karṣati
“ ‘One should not sit closely with one’s mother, sister or daughter, for the senses are so strong that they may attract even a person advanced in knowledge.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The verse advises against sitting closely with one’s mother, sister or daughter.
Its stated reason is the strength of the senses, which may attract even someone advanced in knowledge.
The purport identifies this teaching as appearing in both the Manu-saṁhitā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Antya 2.119 quotesSB 9.19.17
This verse appears in the Manu-saṁhitā (2.215) and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (9.19.17).
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
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:
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this warning challenge the idea that knowledge alone guarantees self-control?
Notice one situation today where you assume your knowledge makes you immune to attraction, and choose a careful boundary.
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