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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.76
তাঁহা বই বিশ্বে কিছু নাহি দেখি আর ।
অতএব ‘বিশ্বরূপ’ নাম যে তাঁহার ॥ ৭৬ ॥
tāṅhā ba-i viśve kichu nāhi dekhi āra
ataeva ‘viśvarūpa’ nāma ye tāṅhāra
The gigantic universal form is called the Viśvarūpa incarnation of Mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa. Thus we do not find anything within this cosmic manifestation except the Lord Himself.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The gigantic universal form is called Viśvarūpa.
Viśvarūpa is an incarnation of Mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa.
Within this cosmic manifestation, we do not find anything except the Lord Himself.
Jubilation and hope. The Lord appears in Navadvīpa; the theological promise becomes a lived story.
The mood of Ādi 13 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:
After her ninth pregnancy she gave birth to a son, who was named Viśvarūpa. Then, in 1407 Śaka Era (A.D. 1486), in the full-moon evening of the month of Phālguna, with the constellation of Siṁha (Leo) on the horizon, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared as the son of Śrī Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might this teaching change the way you look at the world around you?
Pause while looking at your surroundings and recall that nothing within the cosmic manifestation is apart from the Lord.
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