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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.326
চতুর্দশে ‘বাল্যলীলা’র কিছু বিবরণ ।
পঞ্চদশে ‘পৌগণ্ডলীলা’র সংক্ষেপে কথন ॥ ৩২৬ ॥
caturdaśe ‘bālya-līlā’ra kichu vivaraṇa
pañcadaśe ‘paugaṇḍa-līlā’ra saṅkṣepe kathana
The fourteenth chapter gives some description of the Lord’s childhood pastimes. The fifteenth briefly describes the Lord’s boyhood pastimes.
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The fourteenth chapter gives some description of the Lord’s childhood pastimes.
The fifteenth chapter describes the Lord’s boyhood pastimes briefly.
These chapters present childhood and boyhood as distinct periods of the Lord’s pastimes.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 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:
There is no need of mundane arguments in this connection, because mundane arguments are meaningless in regard to inconceivable potency. At the end of the seventeenth chapter, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, following in the footsteps of Śrīla Vyāsadeva, has summarized all the ādi-līlā pastimes separately.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does distinguishing childhood from boyhood help you follow the account of the Lord’s pastimes?
Write two short headings in your notes: childhood pastimes and boyhood pastimes.
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