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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.35
এত বলি’ জননীর কোলেতে চড়িয়া ।
স্তন পান করে প্রভু ঈষৎ হাসিয়া ॥ ৩৫ ॥
eta bali’ jananīra kolete caḍiyā
stana pāna kare prabhu īṣat hāsiyā
After saying this, the Lord, smiling slightly, climbed on the lap of His mother and sucked her breast.
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After speaking, the Lord smiled slightly.
He climbed onto His mother’s lap.
He sucked His mother’s breast, accepting her 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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What stands out to you in this simple description of the Lord with His mother?
Spend a quiet minute recalling the Lord’s smile and His place on His mother’s lap.
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