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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.124
প্রভু কহে, — “মোর বশ নহে মোর মন ।
প্রকৃতিসম্ভাষী বৈরাগী না করে দর্শন ॥ ১২৪ ॥
prabhu kahe, — “mora vaśa nahe mora mana
prakṛti-sambhāṣī vairāgī nā kare darśana
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “My mind is not under My control. It does not like to see anyone in the renounced order who talks intimately with women.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu responded to the devotees’ appeal by saying, “My mind is not under My control.”
He said that His mind did not like to see anyone in the renounced order who talked intimately with women.
Despite the devotees’ request for mercy, He repeated His objection. His response kept the standard for renounced conduct firmly before them.
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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