110830 Adi Ch14 Childhood Lila.mp3 (40 minutes, 30.2 MB)

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has given a summary of this chapter in his Amrita-pravaha-bhashya: “In the fourteenth chapter there is a description of how Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu enjoyed His childhood pastimes – crawling, crying, eating dirt and giving intelligence to His mother, favoring a brahmana guest, riding on the shoulders of two thieves and misleading them to His own house, and, on the plea of being diseased, taking prasadam in the house of Hiranya and Jagadisa on the Ekadasi day.

The chapter further describes how He displayed Himself as a naughty boy, how when His mother fainted He brought a coconut to her on His head, how He joked with girls of the same age on the banks of the Ganges, how He accepted worshipful paraphernalia from Srimati Laksmidevi, how He sat down in a garbage pit and instructed His mother in transcendental knowledge, how He left the pit on the order of His mother, and how He dealt with His father with full affection.”

(Summary of Adi-lila Chapter 14 from Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita by Srila Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami, translation and commentary by Srila Prabhupad)