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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.34
কৃষ্ণ কহেন—ব্রহ্মা, তোমার পিতা নারায়ণ ।
আমি গোপ, তুমি কৈছে আমার নন্দন ॥ ৩৪ ॥
kṛṣṇa kahena — brahmā, tomāra pitā nārāyaṇa
āmi gopa, tumi kaiche āmāra nandana
Śrī Kṛṣṇa said, “O Brahmā, your father is Nārāyaṇa. I am but a cowherd boy. How can you be My son?”
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Śrī Kṛṣṇa tells Brahmā that his father is Nārāyaṇa.
Kṛṣṇa describes Himself as merely a cowherd boy.
He asks Brahmā how he can therefore be His son.
Revelatory awe. The identity of Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa is established; wonder becomes theological confidence.
The mood of Ādi 2 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:
Mahā-Viṣṇu is the reservoir of all conditioned souls, but, as confirmed in the authoritative scriptures, Lord Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate fountainhead, the source of numerous plenary expansions, including Nārāyaṇa, who is generally accepted by Māyāvādī philosophers to be the Absolute Truth. The Lord’s manifestation of prābhava and vaibhava expansions, as well as partial incarnations and incarnations with delegated powers, are also explained.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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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: “cowherd”
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What do I notice about Kṛṣṇa's description of Himself as a cowherd boy?
Read Kṛṣṇa's question aloud once, paying attention to how He describes Himself.
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