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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.247
বাল্য, পৌগণ্ড হয় বিগ্রহের ধর্ম ।
এতরূপে লীলা করেন ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন ॥ ২৪৭ ॥
bālya, paugaṇḍa haya vigrahera dharma
eta-rūpe līlā karena vrajendra-nandana
“Childhood and boyhood are the typical ages of the Deity. Kṛṣṇa, the son of Mahārāja Nanda, performed His pastimes as a child and as a boy.
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Childhood and boyhood are the typical ages of the Deity.
Kṛṣṇa is identified here as the son of Mahārāja Nanda.
Kṛṣṇa performed His pastimes both as a child and as a boy.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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 Lord also discussed the divisions of Kṛṣṇa’s different ages, such as bālya and paugaṇḍa, and the different pastimes of the different ages. He explained how Kṛṣṇa attained His permanent form when He reached youth.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “nanda”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What draws your attention to Kṛṣṇa’s appearance as a child and as a boy?
Read the translation slowly, pausing to reflect on Kṛṣṇa as the son of Mahārāja Nanda.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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