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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 1.68
দুইরূপে হয় ভগবানের প্রকাশ ।
একে ত’ প্রকাশ হয়, আরে ত’ বিলাস ॥ ৬৮ ॥
dui-rūpe haya bhagavānera prakāśa
eke ta’ prakāśa haya, āre ta’ vilāsa
The Personality of Godhead exhibits Himself in two kinds of forms: prakāśa and vilāsa.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Supreme Lord expands His personal forms in two primary categories: prakāśa and vilāsa. Prakāśa forms have features exactly like Lord Kṛṣṇa’s and are manifested for His pastimes.
Lord Kṛṣṇa manifested sixteen thousand prakāśa expansions when He married sixteen thousand queens in Dvārakā. During the rāsa dance, He expanded into identical forms beside every gopī simultaneously.
Vilāsa expansions differ somewhat in bodily features. Balarāma, the first vilāsa expansion, differs from Kṛṣṇa in bodily color; the four-handed Nārāyaṇa forms in Vaikuṇṭha expand from Balarāma.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Reverence and gratitude. The narrator takes shelter of the guru-paramparā; receptivity begins with humility.
The mood of Ādi 1 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
They are identical because both of them are phenomenal manifestations of the Supreme Truth. Next described are the devotees, who are divided into two classes, namely, the apprentices and the graduates.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rāsa”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopī”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What difference in bodily features distinguishes prakāśa forms from vilāsa forms?
Write one sentence each defining prakāśa and vilāsa, using the bodily features described here.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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