Text 56]
Lord Caitanya's Childhood Pastimes
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TRANSLATION
“They will be learned, clever and young and possess abundant wealth and rice. Not only that, but you will each have seven sons, who will all live long lives and be very intelligent.”
PURPORT
Generally it is the ambition of a young girl to have a very handsome husband who is learned, clever, young and rich. According to the Vedic culture, one is rich if he possesses a large stock of food grains and a very large number of animals.  Dhānyena dhanavān gavayā dhanavān : one is rich if he possesses food grains, cows and bulls. A girl also desires to have many children, especially sons ( putra ) who are very intelligent and long living. Now there is propaganda to have one or two children and kill the rest by contraceptive methods because society has deteriorated. But the natural ambition of a girl is to possess not only more than one child but at least half a dozen.
In exchange for the paraphernalia of worship He usurped for Himself, Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to bless the girls to fulfill all their ambitions and desires. One can easily become happy and obtain the material benefits of a good husband, wealth, food grains and a number of nice children by worshiping Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted  sannyāsa  at an early age, it is not necessary for His devotees to follow Him by also taking  sannyāsa . One can stay a householder, but one must be a devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Then one will be happy, with all the material opulences of a good home, good children, good mate, good wealth and everything he desires. Therefore the  śāstras  advise,  yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ  ( Bhāg.  11.5.32). Every householder, therefore, who is actually intelligent should introduce the  saṅkīrtana  movement home to home and live peacefully in this life and go back to Godhead in the next.
TEXT 56
वर भुनि कशा गणेर अच्छरे सन्देश ।
बाहिरे छंद सन करे करि मिथ्या रोष ॥ ८७ ॥
vara śuni' kanyā-gaṇera antare santoṣa bāhire bhartsana kare kari' mithyā roṣa
SYNONYMS
vara śuni' —hearing the benediction;  kanyā-gaṇera —of the girls;  antare —within;  santoṣa —very much satisfaction;  bāhire —externally;  bhartsana —rebuking;  kare —they do;  kari' —making;  mithyā —false;  roṣa —anger.
TRANSLATION
Hearing this benediction of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, all the girls were inwardly very happy; but externally, as it is natural for girls, they rebuked the Lord under the pretense of anger.