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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.64
সাহজিক প্রীতি দুহার করিল উদয় ।
বাল্যভাবাচ্ছন্ন তভু হইল নিশ্চয় ॥ ৬৪ ॥
sāhajika prīti duṅhāra karila udaya
bālya-bhāvācchanna tabhu ha-ila niścaya
Their natural love for each other awakened, and although it was covered by childhood emotions, it became apparent that they were mutually attracted.
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Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lakṣmīdevī are eternal husband and wife.
It was natural for their dormant love to awaken when they saw each other. Their meeting immediately awakened their natural feelings.
Although their love was covered by childhood emotions, their mutual attraction became apparent.
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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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In this verse: “love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does their eternal relationship explain the natural awakening of their love?
Spend a quiet moment reflecting on their meeting as the awakening of love between eternal husband and wife.
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