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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.70
এইমত লীলা করি’ দুঁহে গেলা ঘরে ।
গম্ভীর চৈতন্য–লীলা কে বুঝিতে পারে ॥ ৭০ ॥
ei-mata līlā kari’ duṅhe gelā ghare
gambhīra caitanya-līlā ke bujhite pāre
After thus expressing their feelings to each other, Lord Caitanya and Lakṣmī returned home. Who can understand the grave pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
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Lord Caitanya and Lakṣmī expressed their feelings to each other.
Afterward, they returned home.
The translation asks who can understand the grave pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, drawing attention to their depth.
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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How does the closing question encourage humility in your reading?
Pause over the final question and reflect on what you do not yet understand about this pastime.
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