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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 3.117
প্রাতঃকাল দেখি’ বেশ্যা উঠিয়া চলিলা ।
সব সমাচার যাই খাঁনেরে কহিলা ॥ ১১৭ ॥
prātaḥ-kāla dekhi’ veśyā uṭhiyā calilā
saba samācāra yāi khāṅnere kahilā
When she saw that it was morning, the prostitute stood up and left. Coming before Rāmacandra Khān, she informed him of all the news.
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When the prostitute saw that morning had come, she stood up and left.
She went before Rāmacandra Khān and reported what had happened.
The preceding verse shows how the night had passed: Haridāsa Ṭhākura had continued chanting while she sat there.
Steadfast compassion. Haridāsa’s spiritual conviction and the reach of the holy name confront prejudice and temptation.
The mood of Antya 3 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 person named Rāmacandra Khān, who was envious of Haridāsa Ṭhākura, sent a professional prostitute to attempt to defame him, but by the mercy of Haridāsa Ṭhākura, even the prostitute was delivered. Because of offending a pure Vaiṣṇava, Rāmacandra Khān was later cursed by Nityānanda Prabhu and ruined.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 3
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Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “haridāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to me about how Haridāsa Ṭhākura spent that night?
Read the account of his overnight chanting again, then spend one minute chanting attentively.
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