Text 43] Lord Caitanya’s Childhood Pastimes 153
TEXT 42
“cuca gia 4a, cca atae fareyca |
GFCA AI-ACa Ate, feat athe ara wi” 82 hi
“‘kene curi kara, Rene mdraha sisure
kene para-ghare yaha, kibé nahi ghare”’
SYNONYMS
kene curi kara—why do You steal; Rene maraha sisure—why do you beat other
children; Rene—why; para-ghare—in others’ houses; yaha—Y ou go, kibd— what; nahi—
is not there; ghare—in Your own house.
TRANSLATION
Sacimata said: “Why do You steal others’ things? Why do You beat the other
children? And why do You go inside others’ houses? What do you not have in Your
own house?”
PURPORT
According to the Vedanta-sittra (fianmdady asya yatah), since creation, maintenance
and annihilation exist in the Supreme Absolute, whatever we find within this ma-
terial world is already in the spiritual world. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Krsna Himsetf. How is He stealing, and how is He fighting?
It is not as a thief or an enemy, but asa friend in a loving condition. He steals as a
child, not because He is in want, but as a natural instinct. In this material world
also, small children, without enmity or bad will, sometimes go to a neighboring
house and steal, and sometimes they fight. Krsna also, like other children, did all
these things in His childhood. Without the existence of the stealing propensity and
fighting propensity in the spiritual world, they cannot exist here in this materia
world. The difference between the material and spiritual worlds is that stealing in
the spiritual world is done in friendship and love, whereas fighting and stealing with-
in this material world are executed on the basis of enmity and envy. Therefore we
should understand that in the spiritual world all these activities exist, but there is
no inebriety, whereas in the material world all activities are full of miserable con-
ditions.
TEXT 43
fe He Ear Ae Ua-fown sani |
Aca ay She fer, caiem Silesia sey
Suni’ kruddha had prabhu ghara-bhitara yard
ghare yata bhanda chila, phetila bhangiya
