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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.55
কালি মধ্যাহ্নে তেঁহো আসিবেন তোমার ঘরে ।
পাক-সামগ্রী আনহ, আমি ভিক্ষা দিমু তাঁরে ॥ ৫৫ ॥
kāli madhyāhne teṅho āsibena tomāra ghare
pāka-sāmagrī ānaha, āmi bhikṣā dimu tāṅre
“Tomorrow at noon He will come to your home. Therefore please bring all kinds of cooking ingredients. I shall personally cook and offer Him food.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Nṛsiṁhānanda said that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would come to Śivānanda Sena’s home the next day at noon.
He asked Śivānanda to bring all kinds of cooking ingredients.
He intended to cook personally and offer the food to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What practical preparation could help you serve with greater personal care?
Set aside one ingredient today for a preparation you intend to cook and offer to the Lord.
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