Chapter 14
Lord Caitanya’s Childhood Pastimes

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has given a summary of this chapter in his Amrta-
pravaha-bhdsya: “‘|In this Fourteenth Chapter of the Caftanya-caritamrta there isa
description of how Lord Caitanya Mahapsabhu enjoyed His childhood pastimes,
crawling, crying and eating dirt, giving intelligence to His mother, favoring abrahmana
guest, riding on the shoulders of two thieves and misleading them to His own house,
and, on the plea of being diseased, taking prasdda in the house of Hiranya and
Jagadisa on the Ekadasi day. The chapter further describes how He displayed Him-
self as a naughty boy, how when His mother faint d 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 wherefrom He instructed transcendental knowledge, how He
left the pit on the order of His mother, and how He dealt with His father with full
affection.”

TEXT 1
FUHA WS YA GEM VHA SLA |
Faxes favAse Bie Atosas ar qs 1
kathahcana smrte yasmin duskararn sukaram bhavet
vismrte viparitarm syat sri-caitanyarm namaémi tam
SYNONYMS

kathancana—somehow or other; smrte—by semembering; yasmin—whom;
duskaram—difficult things; swkaram—easy; bhavet—become; vismrte—by forgetting
Him; viparitam—just the opposite; sya@t—become; sri-caitanyam—Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu; namémi—| offer my respectful obeisances; tam—unto Him.

TRANSLATION

Things that are very difficult to do become easy to execute if one somehow or
other simply remembers Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. But if one does not remember
Him, even easy things become very difficult. To this Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu
| offer my respectful obeisances.

PURPORT

In his book Caitanya-candrdémrta Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati says: “One who

receives a little favor from the Lord becomes so exalted that he does not care even
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