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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.29
শুনি’ শিবানন্দ সেন তাঁহা শীঘ্র আইল ।
নমস্কার করি’ তাঁর নিকটে বসিল ॥ ২৯ ॥
śuni’, śivānanda sena tāṅhā śīghra āila
namaskāra kari’ tāṅra nikaṭe vasila
Hearing these calls, Śivānanda Sena quickly went there, offered obeisances to Nakula Brahmacārī, and sat down near him.
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When Śivānanda Sena heard the calls, he quickly went to Nakula Brahmacārī.
He offered obeisances before sitting down near him.
Although he still had doubts, as the next verse reveals, he approached respectfully.
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:
Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary. 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.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.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “offered”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I remain respectful while seeking answers to my doubts?
In one conversation today, greet the other person respectfully and settle down to listen.
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