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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.80
শচী কহে,—আর এক অদ্ভুত দেখিল ।
দিব্য দিব্য লোক আসি’ অঙ্গন ভরিল ॥ ৮০ ॥
śacī kahe, — āra eka adbhuta dekhila
divya divya loka āsi’ aṅgana bharila
Mother Śacī said, “I also saw another wonder. People were coming down from the celestial kingdom and crowding the entire courtyard.
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Mother Śacī said that she too had seen another wonder.
She had seen people coming down from the celestial kingdom.
They were crowding the entire courtyard.
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 do you notice about the wonder mother Śacī chose to share?
Recall mother Śacī’s account today and describe its three details in your own words: who came, where they came from, and where they gathered.
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