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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.159
দুর্গতি না হয় তার, সদ্গতি সে হয় ।
প্রভু-ভঙ্গী এই, পাছে জানিবা নিশ্চয় ।।” ১৫৯ ॥ ১৫৯ ॥
durgati nā haya tāra, sad-gati se haya
prabhu-bhaṅgī ei, pāche jānibā niścaya”
“Haridāsa cannot have been degraded; he must have attained liberation. This is a pastime of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s. You will all understand it later.”
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The speaker firmly rejects the idea that Haridāsa was degraded and says he must have attained liberation.
The event is described as a pastime of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
The devotees are told that they will understand later. Their present uncertainty is not presented as the final understanding.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
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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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In this verse: “haridāsa”
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