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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.64
‘জগন্নাথে-তোমায় ঐক্য, খাও তাঁর ভোগ ।
নৃসিংহের ভোগ কেনে কর উপযোগ ? ৬৪ ।। ॥ ৬৪ ॥
‘jagannāthe-tomāya aikya, khāo tāṅra bhoga
nṛsiṁhera bhoga kene kara upayoga?
“My dear Lord, You are one with Jagannātha; therefore I have no objection to Your eating His offering. But why are You touching the offering for Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva?
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Pradyumna Brahmacārī acknowledged that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is one with Jagannātha.
He therefore had no objection to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu eating Jagannātha’s offering.
Yet he questioned why the Lord was touching Nṛsiṁhadeva’s offering. The following verses clarify that there is no difference between Them.
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:
Because of this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejected Junior Haridāsa, and despite all the requests of the Lord’s stalwart devotees, the Lord did not accept him again. One year after this incident, Junior Haridāsa went to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā and committed suicide.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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What distinction was Pradyumna Brahmacārī making that the Lord’s demonstration would clarify?
Read this verse alongside the statement that there is no difference between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Jagannātha and Nṛsiṁhadeva.
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