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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 2.47
কৃষ্ণ কহেন—ব্রহ্মা, তোমার না বুঝি বচন ।
জীব–হৃদি, জলে বৈসে সেই নারায়ণ ॥ ৪৭ ॥
kṛṣṇa kahena — brahmā, tomāra nā bujhi vacana
jīva-hṛdi, jale vaise sei nārāyaṇa
Kṛṣṇa said, “Brahmā, I cannot understand what you are saying. Lord Nārāyaṇa is He who sits in the hearts of all living beings and lies down in the waters of the Kāraṇa Ocean.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa tells Brahmā that He cannot understand what Brahmā is saying.
Kṛṣṇa describes Lord Nārāyaṇa as sitting in the hearts of all living beings.
He also describes Lord Nārāyaṇa as lying in the waters of the Kāraṇa Ocean.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to you about Lord Nārāyaṇa’s presence in the hearts of all living beings?
Recall the two places described here: the hearts of all living beings and the waters of the Kāraṇa Ocean.
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