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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.16
নারায়ণের চিহ্নযুক্ত শ্রীহস্ত–চরণ ।
এই শিশু সর্ব লোকে করিবে তারণ ॥ ১৬ ॥
nārāyaṇera cihna-yukta śrī-hasta caraṇa
ei śiśu sarva loke karibe tāraṇa
“This baby has all the symptoms of Lord Nārāyaṇa on His palms and soles. He will be able to deliver all the three worlds.
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The baby has all the symptoms of Lord Nārāyaṇa.
These symptoms are present on His palms and soles.
The speaker declares that He will be able to deliver all the three worlds.
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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In this verse: “deliver”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What sense of hope does the promise to deliver all three worlds give you?
Read the final sentence slowly and reflect on the reach of the words “all the three worlds.”
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