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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.47
বাহিরে যাঞা আনিলেন দুই নারিকেল ।
দেখিয়া অপূর্ব হৈল বিস্মিত সকল ॥ ৪৭ ॥
bāhire yāñā ānilena dui nārikela
dekhiyā apūrva haila vismita sakala
He then went outside the house and immediately brought two coconuts. All the ladies were astonished to see such wonderful activities.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord went outside the house.
He immediately brought two coconuts.
All the ladies were astonished to see such wonderful activities.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What detail in the Lord’s action draws your attention to the ladies’ astonishment?
Pause over the word “immediately” and reflect on the wonder expressed by the ladies.
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