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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.93
এই মত শিশুলীলা করে গৌরচন্দ্র ।
দিনে দিনে পিতা–মাতার বাড়ায় আনন্দ ॥ ৯৩ ॥
ei mata śiśu-līlā kare gauracandra
dine dine pitā-mātāra bāḍāya ānanda
In this way Gaurahari performed His childhood pastimes and day after day increased the pleasure of His parents.
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Gaurahari performed His childhood pastimes.
These pastimes gave pleasure to His parents.
Day after day, their pleasure increased.
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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Spend a quiet minute reflecting on the pleasure Gaurahari’s childhood pastimes brought His parents.
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