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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 15.291
প্রভু কহে, — অমোঘ শিশু, তোমার বালক ।
বালক-দোষ না লয় পিতা, তাহাতে পালক ॥ ২৯১ ॥
prabhu kahe, — amogha śiśu, tomāra bālaka
bālaka-doṣa nā laya pitā, tāhāte pālaka
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “Amogha is a child and your son. The father does not take the faults of his son seriously, especially when he is maintaining him.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes Amogha as a child and Sārvabhauma’s son.
He says that a father does not take his son’s faults seriously.
He especially emphasizes this forbearance when the father is maintaining the son.
Festive affection and reconciliation. Festivals, reciprocal hospitality, and the deliverance of Amogha show affectionate grace.
The mood of Madhya 15 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:
Thereafter, when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was accepting prasādam at the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Sārvabhauma’s son-in-law, Amogha, created trouble in the family with his criticisms. The following morning, he was attacked by the disease of visūcikā (cholera).Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 15
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I show greater forbearance toward someone in my care?
Respond patiently to one small fault in someone you care for today.
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