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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.39
ব্যাধি–ছলে জগদীশ–হিরণ্য–সদনে ।
বিষ্ণু–নৈবেদ্য খাইল একাদশী–দিনে ॥ ৩৯ ॥
vyādhi-chale jagadīśa-hiraṇya-sadane
viṣṇu-naivedya khāila ekādaśī-dine
Pretending to be sick, the Lord asked some food from the house of Hiraṇya and Jagadīśa on the Ekādaśī day.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Fasting is recommended for devotees on Ekādaśī, but not for Lord Viṣṇu. Regular prasādam is therefore offered to Him on that day.
Pretending to be sick, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu requested the special viṣṇu-prasādam prepared by Jagadīśa and Hiraṇya. They were astonished that He knew about their preparations and concluded that Nimāi had supernatural mystic power.
They sent the food through His father, Jagannātha Miśra. After eating the viṣṇu-prasādam, Nimāi was immediately cured and distributed it among His playmates.
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
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Audārya · Love that moves outward
The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “distributed”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “offered”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What distinction does the purport make between a devotee’s Ekādaśī observance and offerings to Lord Viṣṇu?
Write a reminder that devotees’ Ekādaśī fasting does not mean withholding food offerings from Lord Viṣṇu.
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