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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.156
‘বিষাদি খাঞা হরিদাস আত্মঘাত কৈল ।
সেই পাপে জানি ‘ব্রহ্মরাক্ষস’ হৈল ॥ ১৫৬ ॥
‘viṣādi khāñā haridāsa ātma-ghāta kaila
sei pāpe jāni ‘brahma-rākṣasa’ haila
“Haridāsa must have committed suicide by drinking poison, and because of this sinful act, he has now become a brāhmaṇa ghost.
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The devotees guessed that Haridāsa had taken his own life by drinking poison.
They described this supposed act as sinful and concluded that he had become a brāhmaṇa ghost.
These words report their guess, not an established account of what happened. In the following verse, Svarūpa Dāmodara rejects it as false.
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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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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