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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.145
এইমতে হরিদাসের এক বৎসর গেল ।
তবু মহাপ্রভুর মনে প্রসাদ নহিল ॥ ১৪৫ ॥
ei-mate haridāsera eka vatsara gela
tabu mahāprabhura mane prasāda nahila
In this way a complete year passed for Junior Haridāsa, but still there was not a sign of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy toward him.
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A complete year passed for Junior Haridāsa.
Throughout that year, there was still no sign of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy toward him.
The surrounding verses call the Lord an ocean of mercy, yet here His mercy was not visibly apparent to Haridāsa.
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:
One year after this incident, Junior Haridāsa went to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā and committed suicide. In his spiritual body, however, he continued to sing devotional songs, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard them.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.
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: “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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this verse challenge my expectation that mercy must always be immediately visible?
Read this translation alongside the description of the Lord as an ocean of mercy, and note the contrast.
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