Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrita

CC Adi 15 Summary

CC Adi 15.1: I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya because simply by offering a flower at His lotus feet even the most ardent materialist becomes a devotee.

CC Adi 15.2: All glories to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityananda Prabhu! All glories to Advaita Acarya! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya!

CC Adi 15.3: Let me now enumerate the activities of the Lord between the ages of five and ten. His chief occupation during this period was to engage Himself in study.

CC Adi 15.4: The pastimes of the Lord during His pauganda age were very extensive. His education was His chief occupation, and after that His very beautiful marriage took place.

CC Adi 15.5: When the Lord was studying grammar at the place of Gangadasa Pandita, He would immediately learn grammatical rules and definitions by heart simply by hearing them once.

CC Adi 15.6: He soon became so expert in commenting on the Panji-tika that He could win victory over all the other students, although He was a neophyte.

CC Adi 15.7: In his book Caitanya-mangala [which later became Caitanya-bhagavata], Srila Vrindavana dasa Thakura has very elaborately described the Lord's pastimes of study.

CC Adi 15.8: One day Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu fell down at the feet of His mother and requested her to give Him one thing in charity.

CC Adi 15.9: His mother replied, "My dear son, I will give You whatever You ask." Then the Lord said, "My dear mother, please do not eat grains on the Ekadasi day."

CC Adi 15.10: Mother Saci said, "You have spoken very nicely. I shall not eat grains on Ekadasi." From that day, she began to observe fasting on Ekadasi.

CC Adi 15.11: Thereafter, seeing that Visvarupa was a grown-up youth, Jagannatha Misra wanted to find a girl and arrange a marriage ceremony for Him.

CC Adi 15.12: Hearing of this, Visvarupa immediately left home and went away to accept sannyasa and travel from one place of pilgrimage to another.

CC Adi 15.13: When Sacimata and Jagannatha Misra heard of the departure of their elder son, Visvarupa, they were very unhappy, but Lord Caitanya tried to console them.

CC Adi 15.14: "My dear mother and father," the Lord said, "it is very good that Visvarupa has accepted the sannyasa order, for thus He has delivered both His father's family and His mother's family."

CC Adi 15.15: Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu assured His parents that He would serve them, and thus the minds of His father and mother were satisfied.

CC Adi 15.16: One day Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ate betel nuts offered to the Deity, but they acted as an intoxicant, and He fell down on the ground unconscious.

CC Adi 15.17: After His father and mother sprinkled water on His mouth with great haste, the Lord revived and said something wonderful they had never heard before.

CC Adi 15.18: The Lord said, "Visvarupa took Me away from here, and He requested Me to accept the sannyasa order.

CC Adi 15.19: "I replied to Visvarupa, 'I have My helpless father and mother, and also I am but a child. What do I know about the sannyasa order of life?

CC Adi 15.20: "'Later I shall become a householder and thus serve My parents, for this action will very much satisfy Lord Narayana and His wife, the goddess of fortune.'

CC Adi 15.21: "Then Visvarupa returned Me home and requested, 'Offer thousands and thousands of obeisances unto My mother, Sacidevi.'"

CC Adi 15.22: In this way Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu performed various pastimes, but why He did so I cannot understand.

CC Adi 15.23: After some days, Jagannatha Misra passed away from this world to the transcendental world, and both mother and son were very much aggrieved in their hearts.

CC Adi 15.24: Friends and relatives came there to pacify Lord Caitanya and His mother. Then Lord Caitanya, even though He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, executed the rituals for His dead father according to the Vedic system.

CC Adi 15.25: After some days the Lord thought, "I did not take sannyasa, and since I am remaining at home it is My duty to act as a grihastha.

CC Adi 15.26: "Without a wife," Lord Caitanya considered, "there is no meaning to householder life." Thus the Lord decided to marry.

CC Adi 15.27: "Merely a house is not a home, for it is a wife who gives a home its meaning. If one lives at home with his wife, together they can fulfill all the interests of human life."

CC Adi 15.28: One day when the Lord was coming back from school He accidentally saw the daughter of Vallabhacarya on the way to the Ganges.

CC Adi 15.29: When the Lord and Lakshmidevi met, their relationship awakened, having already been settled, and coincidentally the marriage-maker Vanamali came to see Sacimata.

CC Adi 15.30: Following the indications of Sacidevi, Vanamali Ghataka arranged the marriage, and thus in due course the Lord married Lakshmidevi.

CC Adi 15.31: Vrindavana dasa Thakura has elaborately described all these pastimes of the Lord's early age. What I have given is but a condensed presentation of the same pastimes.

CC Adi 15.32: The Lord performed many varieties of pastimes in His early age, and Srila Vrindavana dasa Thakura has described them elaborately.

CC Adi 15.33: I have given but a single hint of these pastimes, for Vrindavana dasa Thakura, in his book Caitanya-mangala [now Caitanya-bhagavata], has described them all vividly.

CC Adi 15.34: Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krishnadasa, narrate Sri Caitanya-caritamrita, following in their footsteps.

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