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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.13
চিহ্ন দেখি’ চক্রবর্তী বলেন হাসিয়া ।
লগ্ন গণি’ পূর্বে আমি রাখিয়াছি লিখিয়া ॥ ১৩ ॥
cihna dekhi’ cakravartī balena hāsiyā
lagna gaṇi’ pūrve āmi rākhiyāchi likhiyā
When Nīlāmbara Cakravartī saw those marks, he smilingly said, “Formerly I ascertained all this by astrological calculation and noted it in writing.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Nīlāmbara Cakravartī saw the marks and spoke with a smile.
He said that he had formerly ascertained all this by astrological calculation.
He had also noted his findings in writing.
Parental tenderness and play. Nimāi’s childhood alternates affection, mischief, and revelations.
The mood of Ādi 14 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:
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has given a summary of this chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya: “In the fourteenth chapter there is a description of how Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu enjoyed His childhood pastimes — crawling, crying, eating dirt and giving intelligence to His mother, favoring a brāhmaṇa guest, riding on the shoulders of two thieves and misleading them to His own house, and, on the plea of being diseased, taking prasādam in the house of Hiraṇya and Jagadīśa on the Ekādaśī day.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 14
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Nīlāmbara Cakravartī’s earlier written calculation relate to what he now sees?
Identify the two things Nīlāmbara Cakravartī had done earlier: calculated and recorded his findings.
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