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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.28
খই–সন্দেশ–অন্ন, যতেক—মাটির বিকার ।
এহো মাটি, সেহ মাটি, কি ভেদ–বিচার ॥ ২৮ ॥
kha-i-sandeśa-anna yateka — māṭira vikāra
eho māṭi, seha māṭi, ki bheda-vicāra
“Fused rice, sweetmeats and all other eatables are but transformations of dirt. This is dirt, that is dirt. Please consider. What is the difference between them?
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The child described rice, sweetmeats and all other eatables as transformations of dirt.
He argued, “This is dirt, that is dirt.”
He asked His mother to consider what difference there was between them.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Does sharing an origin necessarily make two things the same in every way?
Write down the child's argument in one sentence, keeping His question about difference in view.
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