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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.46
পৌষ-মাস আইল দুহেঁ সামগ্রী করিয়া ।
সন্ধ্যা-পর্যন্ত রহে অপেক্ষা করিয়া ॥ ৪৬ ॥
pauṣa-māse āila duṅhe sāmagrī kariyā
sandhyā-paryanta rahe apekṣā kariyā
When the month of Pauṣa arrived, Jagadānanda and Śivānanda collected all kinds of paraphernalia for the Lord’s reception. Every day, they would wait until evening for the Lord to come.
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When Pauṣa arrived, Jagadānanda and Śivānanda collected all kinds of paraphernalia for the Lord’s reception.
Their expectation took the practical form of preparing to welcome Him.
Every day, they waited until evening for the Lord to come.
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:
A devotee named Bhagavān Ācārya was exceptionally faithful to the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Nevertheless, his brother, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Ācārya, discoursed upon the commentary of impersonalism (Māyāvāda).Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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What can I learn from the care Jagadānanda and Śivānanda put into preparing for the Lord?
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