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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.144
দেখি’ ত্রাস উপজিল সব ভক্তগণে ।
স্বপ্নেহ ছাড়িল সবে স্ত্রী-সম্ভাষণে ॥ ১৪৪ ॥
dekhi’ trāsa upajila saba bhakta-gaṇe
svapne-ha chāḍila sabe strī-sambhāṣaṇe
After all the devotees saw this example, a mentality of fear grew among them. Therefore they all stopped talking with women, even in dreams.
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Seeing this example, the devotees became fearful of deviation. The translation describes them as stopping conversation with women even in dreams.
The purport specifically prohibits talking with women for the purpose of subtle or gross sense gratification.
Cāṇakya Paṇḍita teaches that one should consider another’s wife one’s mother. The purport presents this respectful outlook as a principle for everyone, not only renunciants.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “conversation”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Are my interactions guided by respect, or by a wish for personal gratification?
Before one conversation today, pause and set the intention to treat the other person respectfully, without seeking sensual gratification.
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