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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 2.50
তবে শিবানন্দ তাঁরে সকল কহিলা ।
‘আসিব আজ্ঞা দিলা প্রভু কেনে না আইলা ?’ ৫০ ।। ॥ ৫০ ॥
tabe śivānanda tāṅre sakala kahilā
‘āsiba ājñā dilā prabhu kene nā āilā?’
Then Śivānanda Sena told him, “Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu promised that He would come. Why, then, has He not arrived?”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śivānanda Sena answered Nṛsiṁhānanda’s inquiry by explaining their sorrow.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had promised that He would come.
Śivānanda asked why He had not yet arrived.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Śivānanda’s question help me understand the devotees’ disappointment?
Write one sentence describing why Śivānanda and Jagadānanda were unhappy, staying close to Śivānanda’s words.
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