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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.125
নিজ কার্যে যাহ সবে, ছাড় বৃথা কথা ।
পুনঃ যদি কহ আমা না দেখিবে হেথা ।।” ১২৫ ।। ॥ ১২৫ ॥
nija kārye yāha sabe, chāḍa vṛthā kathā
punaḥ yadi kaha āmā nā dekhibe hethā”
“You should all tend to your respective engagements. Give up this useless talk. If you speak this way again, I shall go away, and you will no longer see Me here.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked everyone to attend to their respective engagements.
He told the devotees to give up this useless talk rather than continue their appeals.
He warned that if they spoke this way again, He would leave, and they would no longer see Him there.
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.
Is any unhelpful discussion drawing me away from my duties?
Set aside one unhelpful conversation today and return to a task that needs your attention.
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