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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.53
আমা সবাকার পক্ষে ইহা করিতে না যুয়ায় ।
না লহ দেবতা সজ্জ, না কর অন্যায় ॥ ৫৩ ॥
āmā sabākāra pakṣe ihā karite nā yuyāya
nā laha devatā sajja, nā kara anyāya
“Therefore it does not behoove You to act like this. Don’t take our paraphernalia for worship of the demigods. Don’t create a disturbance in this way.”
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The girls told the Lord that His behavior was not fitting.
They asked Him not to take their articles for worshiping the demigods.
They also asked Him not to create a disturbance in this way.
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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