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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.3
প্রভুর কহিল এই জন্মলীলা–সূত্র ।
যশোদা–নন্দন যৈছে হৈল শচীপুত্র ॥ ৩॥
prabhura kahila ei janmalīlā-sūtra
yaśodā-nandana yaiche haila śacī-putra
I have thus described in brief the advent of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who appeared as the son of mother Śacī exactly as Kṛṣṇa appeared as the son of mother Yaśodā.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The advent of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has been briefly described.
He appeared as the son of mother Śacī, exactly as Kṛṣṇa appeared as the son of mother Yaśodā.
Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura confirms that Lord Kṛṣṇa has appeared again as Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “yaśodā”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does knowing that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa Himself shape your understanding of His appearance?
Read the translation slowly, remembering that Kṛṣṇa appeared again as Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the son of mother Śacī.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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