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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.43
শুনি’ ক্রুদ্ধ হঞা প্রভু ঘর–ভিতর যাঞা।
ঘরে যত ভাণ্ড ছিল, ফেলিল ভাঙ্গিয়া ॥ ৪৩ ॥
śuni’ kruddha hañā prabhu ghara-bhitara yāñā
ghare yata bhāṇḍa chila, phelila bhāṅgiyā
Thus rebuked by His mother, he Lord would go in anger to a room and break all the pots within it.
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The Lord’s mother rebuked Him.
After being rebuked, He would go in anger to a room.
Within that room, He would break all the pots.
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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Reread the verse and recall its three details: the rebuke, His anger, and the breaking of the pots.
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