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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.74

তবে শিবানন্দ ভোগ-সামগ্রী আনিলা ।

পাক করি’ নৃসিংহের ভোগ লাগাইলা ॥ ৭৪ ॥

tabe śivānanda bhoga-sāmagrī ānilā

pāka kari’ nṛsiṁhera bhoga lāgāilā

Translation

Then Śivānanda Sena again brought the ingredients with which to cook, and Pradyumna Brahmacārī again cooked and offered the food to Nṛsiṁhadeva.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Cooperating to Offer Food to the Lord

  1. 1

    Śivānanda Sena again brought the ingredients needed for cooking.

  2. 2

    Pradyumna Brahmacārī again cooked and offered the food to Nṛsiṁhadeva.

  3. 3

    Their service included both supplying ingredients and preparing the offering. Each contributed to feeding the Lord.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 2: The Chastisement of Junior Haridāsa

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. tabethereupon
  2. śivānandaŚivānanda Sena
  3. bhoga-sāmagrīingredients for preparing food
  4. ānilābrought
  5. pāka kari’after cooking
  6. nṛsiṁheraof Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva
  7. bhoga lāgāilāoffered the food
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Key ideas in this verse

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: “cooked”, “offered”, “service”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can I help someone else complete a service to the Lord?

Practice

Help with one part of a food offering today, such as gathering ingredients or preparing a dish.

Live this todayCooperating to Offer Food to the LordThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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