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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.81
কিবা কোলাহল করে, বুঝিতে না পারি ।
কাহাকে বা স্তুতি করে—অনুমান করি ॥ ৮১ ॥
kibā kolāhala kare, bujhite nā pāri
kāhāke vā stuti kare — anumāna kari
“They made noisy sounds I could not understand. I guess they were offering prayers to someone.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker heard noisy sounds but could not understand them.
The speaker guessed that the sounds were prayers.
The speaker did not know to whom the prayers were being offered.
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: “offered”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I acknowledge uncertainty rather than treat my guesses as facts?
Today, when something is unclear, distinguish what you actually heard from what you guessed.
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