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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.86
মিশ্র কহে,—“দেব, সিদ্ধ, মুনি কেনে নয় ।
যে সে বড় হউক্ মাত্র আমার তনয় ॥ ৮৬ ॥
miśra kahe, — deva, siddha, muni kene naya
ye se baḍa ha-uk mātra āmāra tanaya
Jagannātha Miśra replied, “This boy may be a demigod, a mystic yogī or a great saintly person. It doesn’t matter what He is, for I think He is only my son.
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Jagannātha Miśra allowed that the boy might be a demigod, a mystic yogī or a great saintly person.
He said that it did not matter to him what the boy was.
He thought of Him only as his son.
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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In this verse: “saintly”
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What stands out to me about Jagannātha Miśra’s steady sense of being a father?
Read his reply slowly and note how he contrasts possible greatness with his own parental relationship.
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