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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.77
শচী বলে,—যাহ, পুত্র, বোলাহ বাপেরে ।
মাতৃ–আজ্ঞা পাইয়া প্রভু চলিলা বাহিরে ॥ ৭৭ ॥
śacī bale, — yāha, putra, bolāha bāpere
mātṛ-ājñā pāiyā prabhu calilā bāhire
Once mother Śacī told the Lord, “Please go call Your father.” Receiving this order from His mother, the Lord went out to call him.
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Mother Śacī asked the Lord to call His father.
The Lord received this order from His mother.
He went out to call His father, just as she had requested.
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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What can you learn from the Lord’s simple response to His mother’s request?
Today, respond willingly to one small, helpful request from a family member.
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