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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.34
এবে সে জানিলাঙ, আর মাটি না খাইব ।
ক্ষুধা লাগে যবে, তবে তোমার স্তন পিব ॥” ৩৪ ॥
ebe se jānilāṅ, āra māṭi nā khāiba
kṣudhā lāge yabe, tabe tomāra stana piba”
“Now that I can understand this philosophy, no more shall I eat dirt. Whenever I am hungry I shall suck your breast and drink your breast milk.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord told His mother that He now understood this philosophy.
He declared that He would no longer eat dirt.
He said that whenever He was hungry, He would drink His mother’s breast milk.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How did the Lord connect His stated understanding with a change in what He would eat?
Reread the Lord’s reply and identify the practical change He promised.
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