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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.89
মিশ্র কহে,—“পুত্ৰ কেনে নহে নারায়ণ ।
তথাপি পিতার ধর্ম—পুত্রের শিক্ষণ ॥” ৮৯ ॥
miśra kahe, — “putra kene nahe nārāyaṇa
tathāpi pitāra dharma — putrera śikṣaṇa”
Jagannātha Miśra replied, “Even if my son is not a common man but Nārāyaṇa, still it is the duty of a father to instruct his son.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Jagannātha Miśra acknowledged that his son might not be a common man but Nārāyaṇa.
Even so, he held that a father has a duty to instruct his son.
For Jagannātha Miśra, his son’s divine identity did not remove his responsibility as a father.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you give loving guidance while honoring the person you guide?
Reflect for one minute on how instruction can be an expression of parental care.
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