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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.141

এত বলি তারে স্নান ভোজন করাঞা ।

আপন ভবন আইলা তারে আশ্বাসিয়া ॥ ১৪১ ॥

eta bali tāre snāna bhojana karāñā

āpana bhavana āilā tāre āśvāsiyā

Translation

Having said this, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī induced Haridāsa to bathe and take prasādam. After thus reassuring him, he returned home.

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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.

Reassurance Through Practical Care

  1. 1

    Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī encouraged Haridāsa to bathe and take prasādam.

  2. 2

    His reassurance included practical care for Haridāsa, not only words.

  3. 3

    After reassuring Haridāsa, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī returned home.

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:

Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary. 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.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. eta balisaying this
  2. tārehim
  3. snāna bhojana karāñāinducing to bathe and take prasādam
  4. āpana bhavanato his own place
  5. āilāreturned
  6. tāre āśvāsiyāassuring him
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • 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

How can I offer practical care along with reassuring words?

Practice

Offer someone who is discouraged a kind word and, if possible, some prasādam.

Live this todayReassurance Through Practical CareThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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