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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.52
ক্রোধে কন্যাগণ কহে—শুন, হে নিমাঞি ।
গ্রাম–সম্বন্ধে হও তুমি আমা সবার ভাই ॥ ৫২ ॥
krodhe kanyāgaṇa kahe — śuna, he nimāñi
grāma-sambandhe hao tumi āmā sabāra bhāi
All the girls became very angry at the Lord for this behavior. “Dear Nimāi,” they told Him, “You are just like our brother in our village relationship.
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All the girls became very angry at the Lord’s behavior.
They addressed Him as “Dear Nimāi.”
They said that, through their village relationship, He was just like their brother.
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:
The chapter further describes how He displayed Himself as a naughty boy, how when His mother fainted He brought a coconut to her on His head, how He joked with girls of the same age on the banks of the Ganges, how He accepted worshipful paraphernalia from Śrīmatī Lakṣmīdevī, how He sat down in a garbage pit and instructed His mother in transcendental knowledge, how He left the pit on the order of His mother, and how He dealt with His father with full affection.”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.
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Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “relationship”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do the words “Dear Nimāi” and “our brother” reveal about the girls’ relationship with Him?
Reread the girls’ words and note both their anger and their familiar way of addressing Nimāi.
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