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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.61
এই মত চাপল্য সব লোকেরে দেখায় ।
দুঃখ কারো মনে নহে, সবে সুখ পায় ॥ ৬১ ॥
ei mata cāpalya saba lokere dekhāya
duḥkha kāro mane nahe, sabe sukha pāya
When this cunning behavior of the Lord with the girls became known to the people in general, it did not create misunderstandings among them. Rather, they enjoyed happiness in these dealings.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord’s cunning behavior with the girls became known to the people in general.
These dealings did not create misunderstandings among the people.
Instead, the people enjoyed happiness in hearing of these dealings.
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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