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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 15: The Lord’s Paugaṇḍa-līlā
Ādi 15.23Ādi 15.25

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 15.24

বন্ধু–বান্ধব আসি’ দুঁহা প্রবোধিল ।

পিতৃক্রিয়া বিধিমতে ঈশ্বর করিল ॥ ২৪ ॥

bandhu-bāndhava asi’ duṅhā prabodhila

pitṛ-kriyā vidhi-mate īśvara karila

Translation

Friends and relatives came there to pacify Lord Caitanya and His mother. Then Lord Caitanya, even though He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, executed the rituals for His dead father according to the Vedic system.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Supreme Lord Observes Vedic Funeral Rituals

  1. 1

    Friends and relatives came to comfort Lord Caitanya and His mother.

  2. 2

    Lord Caitanya was the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

  3. 3

    Even so, He performed the rituals for His departed father according to the Vedic system.

How it feels

Wonder touched by grief. Learning, family duty, the loss of Jagannātha Miśra, and marriage create mixed feeling.

The mood of Ādi 15 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 15: The Lord’s Paugaṇḍa-līlā

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

He forbade His mother to take grains on the Ekādaśī day. He narrated a story that Viśvarūpa, after accepting the sannyāsa order, invited Him in a dream to accept sannyāsa also , but the Lord refused and was therefore sent back home.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. bandhufriends
  2. bāndhavarelatives
  3. āsi’coming there
  4. duṅhāboth of them
  5. prabodhilapacified
  6. pitṛ-kriyārituals performed after the death of the father
  7. vidhi-mateaccording to the Vedic system
  8. īśvarathe Supreme Personality of Godhead
  9. karilaexecuted
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What impresses you about the Supreme Personality of Godhead performing the rituals for His father?

Practice

Offer a brief, gentle message of comfort to someone grieving, if you know someone who is.

Live this todayThe Supreme Lord Observes Vedic Funeral RitualsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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