Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 13.118
Giving and Receiving Honor with Joy
“On the day the mother and son bathed and left the maternity home, Sītā Ṭhākurāṇī gave them all kinds of ornaments and garments and then also honored Jagannātha Miśra. Then Sītā Ṭhākurāṇī, being honored by mother Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra, was greatly happy within her mind, and thus she returned home.”
What the purport teaches
- Niṣkrāmaṇa is the ceremony of coming out of the maternity home and is one of the ten purificatory processes. The purport describes bathing on the fifth or ninth day and the mother’s return to the regular rooms on the ninth day.
- Sītā Ṭhākurāṇī honored Śacīdevī and the newborn child with ornaments and garments. She also honored Jagannātha Miśra.
- Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra honored Sītā Ṭhākurāṇī in return, and she went home greatly happy. Such mutual honor was the system in respectable families of Bengal.
Try this today
Offer a sincere thank-you today to someone who has shown you kindness.
Ask yourself
How can you receive someone’s kindness with respect and gratitude?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.