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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.55
পণ্ডিত, বিদগ্ধ, যুবা, ধনধান্যবান্ ।
সাত সাত পুত্র হবে—চিরায়ু, মতিমান্ ॥” ৫৫ ॥
paṇḍita, vidagdha, yuvā, dhana-dhānyavān
sāta sāta putra habe — cirāyu, matimān”
“They will be learned, clever and young and possess abundant wealth and rice. Not only that, but you will each have seven sons, who will all live long lives and be very intelligent.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord promised husbands who would be learned, clever and young, with abundant wealth and rice. The purport describes such a husband as a young girl’s general ambition.
According to the Vedic culture described here, wealth includes a large stock of food grain and many animals, particularly cows and bulls.
The Lord promised each girl seven intelligent, long-lived sons. The purport presents a large family as a natural aspiration and criticizes limiting families through contraceptive methods.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the purport’s description of wealth compare with what you usually consider wealth?
When you see rice or another food grain today, recall its place in the purport’s description of abundance.
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