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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.12
এইমত দর্শনে ত্রিজগৎ নিস্তারি ।
যে কেহ আসিতে নারে অনেক সংসারী ॥ ১২ ॥
ei-mata darśane trijagat nistāri
ye keha āsite nāre aneka saṁsārī
Thus by direct meetings, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu delivered the three worlds. Some people, however, were entangled in material activities and could not go.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu delivered the three worlds through direct meetings.
Some people could not go to meet Him because they were entangled in material activities.
The verse contrasts the opportunity to meet the Lord with the entanglements that kept some people away.
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:
Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, wanted to explain direct meetings with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, meetings with those empowered by Him, and His āvirbhāva appearance. Thus he described the glories of Nṛsiṁhānanda and other devotees.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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In this verse: “delivered”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which material activity most often crowds out your time for devotion?
Set aside one nonessential activity today and use that time to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
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