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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.150
একদিন মহাপ্রভু পুছিলা ভক্তগণে ।
‘হরিদাস কাঁহা? তারে আনহ এখানে’ ॥ ১৫০ ॥
eka-dina mahāprabhu puchilā bhakta-gaṇe
‘haridāsa kāṅhā? tāre ānaha ekhāne’
One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu inquired from the devotees, “Where is Haridāsa? Now you may bring him here.”
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked the devotees where Haridāsa was.
He told them, “Now you may bring him here.” His inquiry invited them to report what they knew.
The preceding verse says that only the Lord knew of Haridāsa’s unseen singing. His question does not mean that He shared the devotees’ lack of knowledge.
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
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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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How does the Lord’s knowledge differ from what the devotees could see?
Read this verse alongside the preceding verse and note what only the Lord knew.
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