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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.65
নৃসিংহের হৈল জানি আজি উপবাস ।
ঠাকুর উপবাসী রহে, জিয়ে কৈছে দাস ?’ ৬৫ ।। ॥ ৬৫ ॥
nṛsiṁhera haila jāni āji upavāsa
ṭhākura upavāsī rahe, jiye kaiche dāsa?’
“I think that Nṛsiṁhadeva could not eat anything today, and therefore He is fasting. If the master fasts, how can the servant live?”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Pradyumna Brahmacārī thought that Nṛsiṁhadeva had received nothing to eat that day.
He therefore spoke of Nṛsiṁhadeva as fasting, expressing concern for his worshipable Lord.
His question, “If the master fasts, how can the servant live?” shows how deeply the servant’s life is bound to the master’s service.
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:
Nevertheless, his brother, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Ācārya, discoursed upon the commentary of impersonalism (Māyāvāda). Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “servant”, “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this concern reveal about seeing yourself as the Lord’s servant?
Before your meal today, pause to remember Pradyumna Brahmacārī’s concern that the Lord be served.
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