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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 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 2.122Antya 2.124

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.123

“অল্প অপরাধ, প্রভু করহ প্রসাদ ।

এবে শিক্ষা হইল না করিবে অপরাধ” ॥ ১২৩ ॥

“alpa aparādha, prabhu karaha prasāda

ebe śikṣā ha-ila nā karibe aparādha”

Translation

“Haridāsa has committed a small offense,” they said. “Therefore, O Lord, please be merciful to him. Now he has received a sufficient lesson. In the future he will not commit such an offense.”

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Mercy and the Hope of Correction

  1. 1

    The devotees acknowledged that Haridāsa had committed an offense, though they described it as small.

  2. 2

    They asked the Lord to be merciful, saying that Haridāsa had already received a sufficient lesson.

  3. 3

    They assured the Lord that he would not commit such an offense again. Their appeal joined a request for mercy with the expectation of changed conduct.

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

Further reading

Antya 2: The Chastisement of Junior Haridāsa

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.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. alpa aparādhathe offense is not very great
  2. prabhuO Lord
  3. karaha prasādabe merciful
  4. ebenow
  5. śikṣā ha-ilahe has gotten a sufficient lesson
  6. nā karibehe will not do
  7. aparādhaoffense
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life

    Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “merciful”, “mercy”

  • 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 I seek mercy for a mistake, am I also willing to change my conduct?

Practice

Choose one mistake you have acknowledged and write down a specific step to avoid repeating it.

Live this todayMercy and the Hope of CorrectionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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