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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.27
কান্দিয়া বলেন শিশু,—কেনে কর রোষ।
তুমি মাটি খাইতে দিলে, মোর কি দোষ ॥ ২৭ ॥
kāndiyā balena śiśu, — kene kara roṣa
tumi māṭi khāite dile, mora kibā doṣa
Crying, the child inquired from His mother, “Why are you angry? You have already given Me dirt to eat. What is My fault?
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The child cried as He spoke to His mother.
He asked why she was angry.
He said that she had already given Him dirt to eat and asked what His fault was.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “crying”
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What claim does the child make as He asks His mother to explain her anger?
Reread the child's words and identify the claim He uses to defend His action.
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