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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.40
তবে প্রভু তাঁরে আজ্ঞা কৈলা গৌড়ে যাইতে ।
“ভক্তগণে নিষেধিহ এথাকে আসিতে ॥ ৪০ ॥
tabe prabhu tāṅre ājñā kailā gauḍe yāite
“bhakta-gaṇe niṣedhiha ethāke āsite
When he was about to return to Bengal, the Lord told him, “Forbid the devotees of Bengal to come to Jagannātha Purī this year.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīkānta Sena was about to return to Bengal.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu gave him a message for the devotees there.
He was to forbid the devotees of Bengal to come to Jagannātha Purī that year.
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:
Thus he described the glories of Nṛsiṁhānanda and other devotees. A devotee named Bhagavān Ācārya was exceptionally faithful to the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How carefully do you notice the exact details of an instruction?
Reread the Lord’s instruction and note whom it concerns, where they should not go, and for how long.
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