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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.57
যে চাহিয়ে, তাহা কর হঞা তৎপর ।
অতি ত্বরায় করিব পাক, শুন অতঃপর ॥ ৫৭ ॥
ye cāhiye, tāhā kara hañā tatpara
ati tvarāya kariba pāka, śuna ataḥpara
“Bring all the ingredients very soon, for I want to begin cooking immediately. Please do what I say.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Nṛsiṁhānanda asked for all the ingredients to be brought very soon.
He wanted to begin cooking immediately.
He asked Śivānanda to follow his request so that the cooking could begin.
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.
Is there a small preparation you are delaying that would allow your service to begin?
Gather what you need for one act of service today before turning to another task.
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