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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.85
“মিশ্র, তুমি পুত্রের তত্ত্ব কিছুই না জান ।
ভর্ৎসন–তাড়ন কর,—পুত্র করি’ মান ॥” ৮৫ ॥
“miśra, tumi putrera tattva kichui nā jāna
bhartsana-tāḍana kara, — putra kari’ māna”
“My dear Miśra, you do not know anything about your son. You think Him your son, and therefore you rebuke and chastise Him.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker told Miśra that he did not know anything about his son.
Miśra thought of Him as his own son.
The speaker connected this view with Miśra’s rebuking and chastising Him.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can a familiar relationship shape what I think I know about someone?
Pause today before correcting someone and consider whether your understanding of them is complete.
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