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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.68
ইহা জানিবারে প্রদ্যুম্নের গূঢ় হৈল মন ।
তাহা দেখাইলা প্রভু করিয়া ভোজন ॥ ৬৮ ॥
ihā jānibāre pradyumnera gūḍha haita mana
tāhā dekhāilā prabhu kariyā bhojana
Pradyumna Brahmacārī was deeply eager to understand this fact. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu revealed it to him by a practical demonstration.
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Pradyumna Brahmacārī was deeply eager to understand that there is no difference between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Jagannātha and Nṛsiṁhadeva.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu revealed this fact to him through a practical demonstration.
By eating all three offerings, the Lord made this truth clear through His own action.
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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How can you bring greater eagerness to understanding what the Lord reveals here?
Write one sentence explaining how eating all three offerings demonstrated the truth stated in the preceding verse.
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