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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.71
তিন জনার ভোগ তেঁহো একেলা খাইলা ।
জগন্নাথ-নৃসিংহ উপবাসী হইলা ।।” ৭১ ॥ ৭১ ॥
tina janāra bhoga teṅho ekelā khāilā
jagannātha-nṛsiṁha upavāsī ha-ilā”
“He alone has eaten the offerings for all three Deities. Because of this, both Jagannātha and Nṛsiṁhadeva remain fasting.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Nṛsiṁhānanda said that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu alone had eaten the offerings intended for all three Deities.
He therefore said that both Jagannātha and Nṛsiṁhadeva remained fasting.
His dismay concerned the Deities’ food offerings. In the following exchange, he asked to cook again for Nṛsiṁhadeva.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Nṛsiṁhānanda’s concern teach me about attentiveness in serving the Lord?
Before making a food offering today, pause to check that everything you intended to offer is ready.
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