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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.25
এত বলি’ গেলা শচী গৃহে কর্ম করিতে ।
লুকাঞা লাগিলা শিশু মৃত্তিকা খাইতে ॥ ২৫ ॥
eta bali’ gelā śacī gṛhe karma karite
lukāñā lāgilā śiśu mṛttikā khāite
But when she returned to her household duties, the child hid from His mother and began to eat dirt.
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The mother returned to her household duties.
The child hid from His mother.
While hidden from her, He began to eat dirt.
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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