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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 12.92
আমি যাই’ ভোজন করি — মাতা নাহি জানে ।
সাক্ষাতে খাই আমি’ তেঁহো ‘স্বপ্ন’ হেন মানে ।।” ৯২ ।। ॥ ৯২ ॥
āmi yāi’ bhojana kari — mātā nāhi jāne
sākṣāte khāi āmi’ teṅho ‘svapna’ hena māne”
“ ‘I go there and eat the food My mother offers, but she cannot understand that I am eating it directly. She thinks that this is a dream.’”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord says that He goes to His mother's home and eats the food she offers.
She does not understand that He is eating it directly.
She thinks the experience is a dream, although the Lord says that He truly eats her offering.
Loving anger and reconciliation. Jagadānanda’s hurt over rejected oil is healed through personal service and prasāda.
The mood of Antya 12 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 devotees often invited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to eat with them. When the Lord bade them all farewell, He talked very pleasingly with them.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 12
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What difference do you notice between what the Lord says happens and what His mother understands?
Write one sentence describing the contrast between the Lord's direct acceptance and His mother's understanding.
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