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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.56
বর শুনি’ কন্যাগণের অন্তরে সন্তোষ ।
বাহিরে ভর্ৎসন করে করি’ মিথ্যা রোষ ॥ ৫৬ ॥
vara śuni’ kanyā-gaṇera antare santoṣa
bāhire bhartsana kare kari’ mithyā roṣa
Hearing this benediction from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, all the girls were inwardly very happy, but externally, as is natural for girls, they rebuked the Lord under the pretense of anger.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The girls were inwardly very happy to hear Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s benediction.
Externally, they rebuked Him under a pretense of anger.
The purport describes this contrast between inward satisfaction and outward dissatisfaction as characteristic of girls. It says such dealings are pleasing to boys seeking friendship with them.
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:
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.
How does knowing the girls’ inward happiness change your reading of their rebuke?
Reread the verse and identify separately what the girls felt and what they outwardly expressed.
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