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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.32
তোমার নাভিপদ্ম হৈতে আমার জন্মোদয় ।
তুমি পিতা–মাতা, আমি তোমার তনয় ॥ ৩২ ॥
tomāra nābhi-padma haite āmāra janmodaya
tumi pitā-mātā, āmi tomāra tanaya
“I took birth from the lotus that grew from Your navel. Thus You are both my father and my mother, and I am Your son.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker took birth from the lotus growing from the Lord’s navel.
He therefore addresses the Lord as both his father and his mother.
He identifies himself as the Lord’s son.
Revelatory awe. The identity of Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa is established; wonder becomes theological confidence.
The mood of Ādi 2 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:
Mahā-Viṣṇu is the reservoir of all conditioned souls, but, as confirmed in the authoritative scriptures, Lord Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate fountainhead, the source of numerous plenary expansions, including Nārāyaṇa, who is generally accepted by Māyāvādī philosophers to be the Absolute Truth. The Lord’s manifestation of prābhava and vaibhava expansions, as well as partial incarnations and incarnations with delegated powers, are also explained.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does addressing the Lord as both father and mother help me reflect upon?
Read this prayer slowly and pause over the words “both my father and my mother.”
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