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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.97
কৃষ্ণের স্বরূপের হয় ষড়্বিধ বিলাস ।
প্রাভব–বৈভব–রূপে দ্বিবিধ প্রকাশ ॥ ৯৭ ॥
kṛṣṇera svarūpera haya ṣaḍ-vidha vilāsa
prābhava-vaibhava-rūpe dvi-vidha prakāśa
“The Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa enjoys Himself in six primary expansions. His two manifestations are prābhava and vaibhava.
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Śrī Kṛṣṇa enjoys Himself in six primary expansions. His innumerable expansions fall primarily into two categories: prābhava and vaibhava.
The prābhava forms are fully potent like Śrī Kṛṣṇa and manifest in relation with potencies. The vaibhava forms are partially potent and manifest in relation with excellences.
The prābhava manifestations are temporary or eternal. Mohinī, Haṁsa and Śukla appear temporarily in a particular age.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
The Lord’s manifestation of prābhava and vaibhava expansions, as well as partial incarnations and incarnations with delegated powers, are also explained. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s ages of boyhood and youth are discussed, and it is explained that His age at the beginning of youth is His eternal form.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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