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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.76
কভু পুত্রসঙ্গে শচী করিলা শয়ন ।
দেখে, দিব্যলোক আসি’ ভরিল ভবন ॥ ৭৬ ॥
kabhu putra-saṅge śacī karilā śayana
dekhe, divyaloka āsi’ bharila bhavana
Sometimes, taking her son with her, mother Śacī would lie down on her bed, and she would see that denizens of the celestial world had come there, filling the entire house.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sometimes mother Śacī would take her son with her and lie down on her bed.
At those times, she would see that denizens of the celestial world had come there.
These celestial visitors filled the entire house.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to you about celestial visitors appearing while mother Śacī rested with her son?
Spend a quiet moment today recalling the scene of mother Śacī, her son, and the house filled with celestial visitors.
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