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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.87
পুত্রের লালন–শিক্ষা—পিতার স্বধর্ম ।
আমি না শিখালে কৈছে জানিবে ধর্ম–মর্ম ॥” ৮৭ ॥
putrera lālana-śikṣā — pitāra sva-dharma
āmi nā śikhāle kaiche janibe dharma-marma
“It is the duty of a father to educate his son in both religion and morality. If I do not give Him this education, how will He know of it?”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Jagannātha Miśra described educating one’s son as a father’s duty.
This education includes both religion and morality.
He asked how his son would know these things if he did not teach 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
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