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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.74
শচী আসি’ কহে,—কেনে অশুচি ছুঁইলা ।
গঙ্গাস্নান কর যাই’—অপবিত্র হইলা ॥ ৭৪ ॥
śacī āsi’ kahe, — kene aśuci chuṅilā
gaṅgā-snāna kara yāi’ — apavitra ha-ilā
When mother Śacī saw her boy sitting on the rejected pots, she protested, “Why have You touched these untouchable pots? You have now become impure. Go and bathe in the Ganges.”
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Mother Śacī saw her boy sitting on the rejected pots.
She protested that He had touched untouchable pots and had become impure.
She told Him to go and bathe in the Ganges.
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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How does mother Śacī’s instruction express her concern for her boy?
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