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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.26
দেখি’ শচী ধাঞা আইলা করি’ ‘হায়, হায়’ ।
মাটি কাড়ি’ লঞা কহে ‘মাটি কেনে খায়’ ॥ ২৬ ॥
dekhi’ śacī dhāñā āilā kari’ ‘hāya, hāya’
māṭi kāḍi’ lañā kahe ‘māṭi kene khāya’
Seeing this, mother Śacī hastily returned and exclaimed, “What is this! What is this!” She snatched the dirt from the hands of the Lord and inquired why He was eating it.
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Seeing the child eating dirt, mother Śacī hastily returned.
She exclaimed, “What is this! What is this!” and snatched the dirt from the Lord's hands.
She asked why He was eating it.
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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How does mother Śacī combine immediate action with a question?
Reflect for a moment on mother Śacī's care, noticing both what she did and what she asked.
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