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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.65
দুঁহা দেখি’ দুঁহার চিত্তে হইল উল্লাস ।
দেবপূজা ছলে কৈল দুঁহে পরকাশ ॥ ৬৫ ॥
duṅhā dekhi’ duṅhāra citte ha-ila ullāsa
deva-pūjā chale kaila duṅhe parakāśa
They both enjoyed natural pleasure in seeing each other, and under the pretext of demigod worship they manifested their feelings.
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They both felt natural pleasure in seeing each other.
Demigod worship provided the pretext for their meeting.
Under that pretext, they expressed their feelings for each other.
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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