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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.36
এইমতে নানা–ছলে ঐশ্বর্য দেখায় ।
বাল্যভাব প্রকটিয়া পশ্চাৎ লুকায় ॥ ৩৬ ॥
eimate nānā-chale aiśvarya dekhāya
bālya-bhāva prakaṭiyā paścāt lukāya
Thus under various excuses the Lord exhibited His opulences as much as possible in His childhood, and later, after exhibiting such opulences, He hid Himself.
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In His childhood, the Lord exhibited His opulences under various excuses.
He displayed these opulences as much as possible.
After exhibiting such opulences, He later hid Himself.
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 contrast do you notice between the Lord’s displaying His opulences and later hiding Himself?
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