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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.9
মিশ্র কহে,—বালগোপাল আছে শিলা–সঙ্গে ।
তেঁহো মূর্তি হঞা ঘরে খেলে, জানি, রঙ্গে ॥ ৯ ॥
miśra kahe, — bālagopāla āche śilā-saṅge
teṅho mūrti hañā ghare khele, jāni, raṅge
Jagannātha Miśra said, “Certainly child Kṛṣṇa is with the śālagrāma-śilā. Taking His childhood form, He is playing within the room.”
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Jagannātha Miśra said that child Kṛṣṇa was with the śālagrāma-śilā, playing within the room in His childhood form.
All material elements are expansions of the Lord’s energy, which is nondifferent from His personal body. He can manifest Himself in His energy because of a devotee’s ardent desire.
Deity worship is not idol worship. In a pure devotee’s house, the Deity can act exactly as the Lord does in His original transcendental personality.
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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:
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has given a summary of this chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya: “In the fourteenth chapter there is a description of how Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu enjoyed His childhood pastimes — crawling, crying, eating dirt and giving intelligence to His mother, favoring a brāhmaṇa guest, riding on the shoulders of two thieves and misleading them to His own house, and, on the plea of being diseased, taking prasādam in the house of Hiraṇya and Jagadīśa on the Ekādaśī day.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 14
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In this verse: “pure devotee”
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How does understanding the Lord’s presence in His Deity change your view of Deity worship?
Read the statement that Deity worship is not idol worship, and pause to reflect on the Lord’s power to manifest Himself.
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