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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.86
একান্তভাবে আশ্রিয়াছেন চৈতন্যচরণ ।
মধ্যে মধ্যে প্রভুর তেঁহো করেন নিমন্ত্রণ ॥ ৮৬ ॥
ekānta-bhāve āśriyāchena caitanya-caraṇa
madhye madhye prabhura teṅho karena nimantraṇa
He sought the shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s lotus feet with full surrender. Sometimes he would invite the Lord to dine at his home.
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Bhagavān Ācārya sought shelter at Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s lotus feet.
He approached the Lord with full surrender.
Sometimes he invited the Lord to dine at his home, giving his surrender a practical expression.
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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Śaraṇāgati · Taking shelter
Turning toward Kṛṣṇa through shelter, surrender, dependence on guru, and unconditional devotional fidelity. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “surrender”, “shelter”, “lotus feet”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can my desire for the Lord’s shelter find expression in a small act of service?
Offer a brief prayer asking for shelter at Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s lotus feet.
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