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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 2.87

ঘরে ভাত করি’ করেন বিবিধ ব্যঞ্জন ।

একলে গোসাঞি লঞা করান ভোজন ॥ ৮৭ ॥

ghare bhāta kari’ karena vividha vyañjana

ekale gosāñi lañā karāna bhojana

Translation

Bhagavān Ācārya prepared varieties of rice and vegetables at home and brought the Lord there alone to eat.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Bhagavān Ācārya prepares dinner for the Lord

  1. 1

    Bhagavān Ācārya prepared varieties of rice and vegetables at home and brought Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu there alone to eat.

  2. 2

    Usually, those inviting the Lord offered Him remnants of food first offered to Lord Jagannātha. Bhagavān Ācārya instead prepared dinner at home.

  3. 3

    In Orissa, food offered to Lord Jagannātha is called prasādī. Food not offered to Him is called āmānī or ghara-bhāta, meaning rice prepared at home.

Key points from the purport
  • Generally those who invited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for dinner used to offer Him the remnants of food that had first been offered to Lord Jagannātha.
  • Bhagavān Ācārya, however, instead of giving Him the remnants of Jagannātha’s food, prepared dinner at his home.
  • In Orissa, food offered to Lord Jagannātha is called prasādī, and that which is not offered to Lord Jagannātha is known as āmānī or ghara-bhāta, rice prepared at home.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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:

Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary. Later, when Junior Haridāsa, following the order of Bhagavān Ācārya, went to collect alms from Mādhavīdevī, he committed an offense by talking intimately with a woman although he was in the renounced order.
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. ghareat home
  2. bhāta kari’preparing rice
  3. karenaprepares
  4. vividha vyañjanavarieties of vegetables
  5. ekalealone
  6. gosāñi lañātaking Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
  7. karāna bhojanamakes to eat
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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: “offered”

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

What do I notice about the care Bhagavān Ācārya took in preparing the Lord’s meal?

Practice

Write down the meanings of prasādī and ghara-bhāta to remember the distinction explained in the purport.

Live this todayBhagavān Ācārya prepares dinner for the LordThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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