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

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 2: The Chastisement of Junior Haridāsa

Antya 2.92 Antya 2.94

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.93

সবে মেলি’ আইস, শুনি ‘ভাষ্য’ ইহার স্থানে’ ।

প্রেম-ক্রোধ করি’ স্বরূপ বলয় বচনে ॥ ৯৩ ॥

sabe meli’ āisa, śuni ‘bhāṣya’ ihāra sthāne’

prema-krodha kari’ svarūpa balaya vacane

Translation

Bhagavān Ācārya requested Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī to hear from Gopāla the commentary upon Vedānta. Svarūpa Dāmodara, however, somewhat angry because of love, spoke as follows.

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

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Loving concern can bring firm correction

1
Bhagavān Ācārya requested Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī to hear Gopāla explain a commentary upon Vedānta.
2
Svarūpa Dāmodara responded with some anger, but the translation expressly says that this arose from love.
3
His following words warn against hearing a commentary that undermines the attitude of service to Kṛṣṇa.

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

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.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

sabe meli’all together
āisacome
śunilet us hear
bhāṣyathe commentary
ihāra sthānefrom him
prema-krodha kari’in an angry mood of love
svarūpaSvarūpa Dāmodara
balaya vacanesaid these words

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love”
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: “service”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can I recognize loving concern when correction feels uncomfortable?

Practice

Recall one correction you have received and consider whether loving concern was behind it.

Live this todayLoving concern can bring firm correctionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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