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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 3.89
এত শুনি’ প্রভুর মনে চমৎকার হৈল ।
‘মোর গূঢ়লীলা হরিদাস কেমনে জানিল ?’ ৮৯ ।। ॥ ৮৯ ॥
eta śuni’ prabhura mane camatkāra haila
‘mora gūḍha-līlā haridāsa kemane jānila?’
Hearing all this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was astonished. “These are actually My confidential pastimes,” He thought. “How could Haridāsa have understood them?”
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was astonished to hear these statements.
He recognized the matters being described as His own confidential pastimes.
He wondered how Haridāsa could have understood them. His response acknowledges the depth of Haridāsa’s understanding.
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:
On another occasion, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once inquired from Haridāsa Ṭhākura, who was known as Brahma Haridāsa, how the yavanas, or persons bereft of Vedic culture, would be delivered in Kali-yuga . Haridāsa Ṭhākura replied that their deliverance would be possible if they very loudly chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, for hearing the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra chanted loudly, even with but little realization, would help them.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 3
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “haridāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the Lord’s astonishment help you appreciate about Haridāsa’s statements?
Reread Haridāsa’s preceding words and identify one statement that prompted the Lord’s astonishment.
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