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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 1.71
চিত্রং বতৈতদেকেন বপুষা যুগপৎ পৃথক্ ।
গৃহেষু দ্ব্যষ্টসাহস্রং স্ত্রিয় এক উদাবহৎ ॥ ৭১ ॥
citraṁ bataitad ekena
vapuṣā yugapat pṛthak
gṛheṣu dvy-aṣṭa-sāhasraṁ
striya eka udāvahat
“It is astounding that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is one without a second, expanded Himself in sixteen thousand similar forms to marry sixteen thousand queens in their respective homes.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is one without a second.
He expanded Himself into sixteen thousand similar forms to marry sixteen thousand queens in their respective homes.
The translation describes this expansion of the one Lord into many similar forms as astounding.
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:
Next considered are the potencies of the Lord, of which three principal manifestations are described: the consorts in the kingdom of God (Vaikuṇṭha), the queens of Dvārakā-dhāma and, highest of all, the damsels of Vrajadhāma. Finally, there is the Supreme Lord Himself, who is the fountainhead of all these manifestations.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you find astounding about Kṛṣṇa remaining one while displaying so many similar forms?
Spend a quiet minute reflecting on the words “one without a second” alongside His sixteen thousand similar forms.
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