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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.148
সেইক্ষণে দিব্যদেহে প্রভুস্থানে আইলা ।
প্রভুকৃপা পাঞা অন্তর্ধানেই রহিলা ॥ ১৪৮ ॥
sei-kṣaṇe divya-dehe prabhu-sthāne āilā
prabhu-kṛpā pāñā antardhānei rahilā
Immediately after committing suicide in this way, he went in his spiritual body to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and received the mercy of the Lord. However, he still remained invisible.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The translation explicitly describes Haridāsa’s death as suicide.
It recounts that afterward he went in his spiritual body to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and received the Lord’s mercy.
Haridāsa remained invisible. This account of his particular outcome is not an instruction to seek mercy through self-harm.
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:
In his spiritual body, however, he continued to sing devotional songs, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard them. When the Vaiṣṇavas of Bengal went to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, these incidents became known to Svarūpa Dāmodara and others.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’s”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to me about the Lord’s mercy after the long absence of any visible sign?
Spend a moment praying for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy in your devotional life today.
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