Text 75] Lord Caitanya’s Childhood Pastimes 171

TEXT 74

ab) BifH arE,— cata BOlS Keen |
statata =a ate? — wrifag Seer 1 98 1

Saci dsi’ Rahe, —Rene asuci chunild
gangd-snana kara yai’'—apavitra ha-ilé

SYNONYMS

$acT asi’— mother Saci, coming there; kahe-—said; Rene—why; asuci—untouchable;
chunilad—You have touched; garga-sndna—bathing in the Ganges; Rara—do; ydi’—
going there; apavitra ha-i/G—Y ou have become impure.

TRANSLATION

When mother Saci saw her boy sitting on the rejected pots, she protested, “Why
have You touched these untouchabie pots? You have now become impure. Go and
take bath in the Ganges.”

TEXT 75
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thd sunt’ mdtdke Rehila brahma-jridna
vismitd ha-iyG matd kardila sndna

SYNONYMS

ihéd suni’—hearing this; md@tdke—unto His mother; Rahi/a—explained; brahma-
jfGna—absolute knowledge; vismit@d—amazed; ha-iv4@é—becoming; mdtd—the mother;
karaila— forced; sndna—bathing.

TRANSLATION

Hearing this, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught His mother about absolute
knowledge. Although amazed by this, His mother forced Him to take bath.

PURPORT

_ The absolute knowledge explained by the Lord to His mother is described by
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhdsya as follows: “The Lord
said, ‘Mother, that this is pure and that is impure is surely a worldly sentiment
with no basis in fact. You have cooked foodstuffs for Lord Visnu within these pots
and offered the foodstuffs to Him. How then can these pots be untouchable?
Everything in relationship with Visnu is to be considered an expansion of Visnu’s
