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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.54
প্রভু কহে,—“তোমা সবাকে দিল এই বর ।
তোমা সবার ভর্তা হবে পরম সুন্দর ॥ ৫৪ ॥
prabhu kahe, — “tomā sabāke dila ei vara
tomā sabāra bhartā habe parama sundara
The Lord replied, “My dear sisters, I give you the benediction that your husbands will be very handsome.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord replied to the girls.
He addressed them affectionately as “My dear sisters.”
He gave them the benediction that their husbands would be very handsome.
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 stands out to you about the Lord’s affectionate form of address?
Pause over the words “My dear sisters” and recall the benediction He gives them.
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