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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.73
উচ্ছিষ্ট–গর্তে ত্যক্ত–হাণ্ডীর উপর ।
বসিয়াছেন সুখে প্রভু দেব–বিশ্বম্ভর ॥ ৭৩ ॥
ucchiṣṭa-garte tyakta-hāṇḍīra upara
basiyāchena sukhe prabhu deva-viśvambhara
Although He is the maintainer of the entire universe, once the Lord sat upon some rejected pots in the pit where the remnants of food were thrown, after the pots had been used for cooking.
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Although He maintains the entire universe, the Lord sat on rejected cooking pots in a pit where food remnants were thrown.
Brāhmaṇas customarily worshiped Lord Viṣṇu daily and cooked in new earthen pots, which were discarded afterward. The purport says this custom continues in Jagannātha Purī.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu sat very pleasingly on these pots to give His mother a lesson.
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:
The chapter further describes how He displayed Himself as a naughty boy, how when His mother fainted He brought a coconut to her on His head, how He joked with girls of the same age on the banks of the Ganges, how He accepted worshipful paraphernalia from Śrīmatī Lakṣmīdevī, how He sat down in a garbage pit and instructed His mother in transcendental knowledge, how He left the pit on the order of His mother, and how He dealt with His father with full affection.”Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 14
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “cooked”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What strikes you about the maintainer of the universe sitting on discarded pots to teach His mother?
Today, pause over this scene and recall both the Lord’s position as maintainer and His wish to teach His mother.
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