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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.41
শিশু সব শচী–স্থানে কৈল নিবেদন ।
শুনি’ শচী পুত্রে কিছু দিলা ওলাহন ॥ ৪১ ॥
śiśu saba śacī-sthāne kaila nivedana
śuni’ śacī putre kichu dilā olāhana
All the children lodged complaints with Śacīmātā about the Lord’s fighting with them and stealing from the neighbors’ houses. Therefore sometimes she used to chastise or rebuke her son.
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The children complained to Śacīmātā about the Lord’s fighting with them.
They also complained that He stole from the neighbors’ houses.
Hearing these complaints, Śacīmātā sometimes chastised or rebuked her son.
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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