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Antya-lila Ch 2 The Chastisement of Junior Haridas

Posted by Sushila Devi Dasi on Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 in Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita

Srila Bhakti Pavan Janardan Maharaj with microphone120613 Antya 2a Nakula and Nrsimhananda Bramacharis.mp3 (39 minutes, 22.3 MB)
120614 Antya 2b Chastisement of Junior Haridas.mp3 (41 minutes, 23.6 MB)

Part 1:

“In His incarnation as Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Sri Krishna descended to deliver all the living beings in the three worlds, from Brahmaloka down to Patalaloka. He caused their deliverance in three ways. The Lord delivered the fallen souls in some places by meeting them directly, in other places by empowering a pure devotee, and in still other places by appearing before someone Himself. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu delivered almost all the fallen souls by directly meeting them. He delivered others by entering the bodies of great devotees, such as Nakula Brahmachari. And He delivered still others by appearing before them, as in the case of Nrsimhananda Brahmachari.

“I shall deliver the fallen souls.” This statement characterizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was personally present, anyone in the world who met Him even once was fully satisfied and became spiritually advanced.”

(Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita: Antya-lila, 2.3-7)

Part 2:

When Junior Haridas, following the order of Bhagavan Acharya, went to collect alms from Madhavidevi, he committed an offense by talking intimately with a woman although he was in the renounced order. Because of this, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu rejected Junior Haridas, and despite all the requests of the Lord’s stalwart devotees, the Lord did not accept him again. One year after this incident, Junior Haridas went to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna and committed suicide. In his spiritual body, however, he continued to sing devotional songs, and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu heard them.

(From the summary of Antya-lila Chapter 2 from Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita by Srila Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami, translation and commentary by Srila Prabhupad)

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